It is a balmy and bright Thursday morning, and over in Fairview, just outside the hustle and bustle of the city, Jennifer Perkins is unlocking the door to the small creamery she runs with her husband, Andy. The building is conveniently located next door to their house and 2-acre yard.
“Our process is slightly different than a lot of other cheese-makers. We’re obviously not a dairy,” she says, pointing to the creamery’s lone goat. “We’re not a farmstead operation; we buy or trade everything for products from local farms, we bring it here and we make cheese.”
Looking Glass Creamery opened its facility in 2009. Perkins had been working as the cheese maker at the famed Blackberry Farms in Tennessee. When “it got to a point where we were going to have to move out there full time,” she says, her reluctance to sell their home in Fairview led her to give up her work at the respected agritourism destination and start a creamery of her own.
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