Join the Landmark Creamery cheesemaking team for a tasting of their artisan sheep milk cheeses and a few additional Wisconsin-made classics!

Over this tasting experience, we will take you on a sensory tour through the basic flavors and aromas of cheese and great accompaniments.

This kind of intentional, observant process is called sensory analysis, the process by which we use our senses to assess and describe food and drink.

We will be pairing a few locally made alcoholic beverages to showcase how cheese flavor can be accentuated with the right combinations.

Note the event will be held outside in the park right next door to Landmark Creamery.

Workshop fee:  $65.00 (adults 21 and over)

BONUS: Registration includes a free copy of the book Renewing the Countryside: WISCONSIN Stories of Sustainable Living, Working & Playing (a $26.95 value) will be made available to every couple, household or family participating in this workshop (one free copy per address).

For more information on other Soil Sisters Aug. 5-7 weekend workshops, culinary events, lodging and more, see www.soilsisterswi.org

Soil Sisters Event Policies:

• This is a workshop designed for adults 21 and older and everyone needs to have their own paid registration. If childcare is an issue and you need to bring your children in order to attend the workshop, please let us know in advance.

• All Soil Sisters events will be fully outdoors with space for social distancing. Masks are not required.

• Dress for the weather. Bring sunscreen, sun hat and good walking shoes.

• Leave your pets at home as these are working farms with other animals.

• All Soil Sisters event tickets are non-refundable.

About Anna Landmark & Anna Thomas-Bates

Landmark Creamery is run by two Anna’s–Anna Landmark and Anna Thomas Bates. Over homemade Old-Fashioned’s, we plotted a partnership dreaming of creamy sheep milk and buttery pasture-grazed cow milk, carefully handcrafted into beautiful, delicious cheese.

Anna Landmark began dreaming about cheese when she started milking her own animals–two feisty goats named Giselle and Celeste and a Milking Shorthorn cow called Freckles. Today she is co-owner and head cheesemaker for Landmark Creamery. She spends her time doing calculations, thinking about pH levels and washing lots of cheese forms.

Anna Thomas Bates, a local food writer and grilled cheese champion, has her finger on the pulse of Wisconsin’s local food movement, from farmers dedicated to sustainable agriculture to forward-thinking chefs. She co-owns Landmark Creamery and heads up sales, marketing and “other stuff.” She can stare at a cheese case for an hour looking at cheese labels and loves it when mongers let her taste the fancy cheese.

But they couldn’t have gotten where they are today without their partner farmers and other Wisconsin cheesemakers. Landmark Creamery works with farmers to build sustainable, family-run dairies that support the local economy in Southern Wisconsin.

About Landmark Creamery
In August 2013, over homemade Old Fashioneds, two Annas plotted a partnership around their dreams of creamy, buttery sheep and cow milk, carefully handcrafted into beautiful, delicious cheese. Anna Landmark, a small farm owner, and Anna Thomas Bates, a food writer, actually met at a Soil Sisters potluck! Today Landmark Creamery produces multiple award-winning beautiful cheese from uncommon milk. Petit Nuage, a fresh sheep milk cheese, won a gold medal in the 2015 U.S. Cheese Championship Contest. Anabasque, a washed rind, cave-aged sheep milk cheese, is inspired by the cheeses of the Basque region. Tallgrass Reserve is a pasture-grazed cow milk cheese aged 6-12 months. A little piece of land, a Swiss grandfather, a noisy milk cow named Freckles, a flock of wild sheep, two goats named Giselle and Celeste and a passion for local food and cooking are the roots of Landmark Creamery.

Soil Sisters is an award-winning project of the non-profit Renewing the Countryside, bringing together women championing local food, community building, sustainable and organic agriculture and vibrant rural communities for collaboration, networking and cooking up change. The founding Soil Sisters in southern Wisconsin organize the annual Soil Sisters event the first weekend in August, the largest women-farmer led event of its kind in the country. Since 2012, the Soil Sisters open their barn doors and farms for various workshops, culinary events and more.