Our Farmstead Artisan Goat Cheese comes from Black Mesa Ranch in Snowflake, Arizona. Black Mesa Ranch’s pampered and happy goats are milked twice daily by rancher Kathryn Heininger. Her husband David then craftfully turns the milk into awesome cheeses. Black Mesa Ranch has both the “Certified Humanely Raised and Handled” and the “Certified Naturally Grown” labels. Black Mesa Ranch cheeses have won many regional and national awards.
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A goat cheese share costs $40 and consists of six 6-ounce logs delivered at the rate of one log every other week. Cheese shares are only available in the summer and fall sessions (June to November) and are available only to those subscribed to a produce share.
Cheese shares are picked up every other week, on even-numbered pickup weeks (weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 of the Summer and Fall sessions). If you forget to pick up your cheese share, we freeze it and you can pick it up later. After the last day of the session, we donate unclaimed ones to charity.
There are four cheese flavors available: Plain, Herb, Chipotle and Jalapeno. By default, members receive each flavor in rotation.
Single cheese share default rotation: Plain, Herb, Chipotle, Jalapeno, Plain, Herb.
Double cheese share default rotation: Plain & Herb, Plain & Chipotle, Plain & Jalapeno, Plain & Herb, Plain & Chipotle, Plain & Jalapeno.
You can also customize your own flavor rotation when submitting your member’s contract.
Black Mesa Ranch also produces exquisite chocolate and candy made from the ranch’s goat milk cream and top-grade Belgian chocolate: Truffles, Caramels, Butter Almond Toffee, Dark Debris and Fudge. They are available seasonally (from Halloween to Christmas), so grab them when they’re available!