Bleating Heart Cheese Chased A Dream & Found Their Whey

TOMALES — In the small concrete-floored room, Seana Doughty plunged her arms into a 200-gallon vat of sheep’s milk and let out a contented sigh.

“This sure beats sitting in front of a computer,” she said. “I love making cheese.”

And cheese lovers can’t get enough of her products. Since its debut five years ago, Doughty’s Bleating Heart Cheese has become an international sensation. And it’s not just her company’s amazing backstory.

“How we started already has become kind of legendary in the cheese world,” Doughty said with a smile. “People introduce me at events as ‘the woman who drove 10 pregnant sheep from Wisconsin in the back of a truck to California so she could make cheese.’ Who else would do that?”

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