BAYVIEW — In the space of about two years, Adam Thompson has gone from peddling his goat cheese products mostly to farmers markets to seeing them on the shelves of 27 H-E-B stores in Texas, including locations in Brownsville, Harlingen, Port Isabel and the McAllen-Pharr-Edinburg metro area.
H-E-B recently picked up two products from Thompson Dairy Farms (formerly South Texas Cheese Factory): a “classic” aged goat feta and a marinated version, both found in the stores’ specialty cheese departments. Thompson said that as far as he knows it’s the only goat cheese available at H-E-B made from raw milk, unpasteurized, with no preservatives.
“It’s milk and culture and rennet and salt,” he said.
Thompson said he’d always planned to break into retail with his dairy, located in Bayview, and last year entered H-E-B’s “Primo Picks Quest for Texas Best” contest, which solicits entries of Texas-made products from across the state. Grand prize winners get the opportunity to pitch their products to H-E-B executives and, if they’re lucky, actually get shelf space.
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