What's New At the Farmers' Markets this Weekend AND Prairie Fruits Farm Cheese Debuts in Boston

What's new for the farmers' markets this week

We're falling into our summer routine of making lots of cheese for farmers' markets. The response at the last two farmers' markets--both in Urbana and at the Green City Market-- have been tremendous. We were pretty much sold out at both markets by 11AM!! Thank you all for your support.  We will continue our labors so that we have more cheeses available for you each week. 

This week, we will be attending THREE farmers' markets: Urbana, Green City Market and the 61st Street Market in Chicago's southside University of Chicago neighborhood.

We will be bringing the following cheeses:

Fresh Chevre (of course): plain, herbs de Provence and cracked black peppercorn

Krotovina: a soft ripened cheese with an ash layer through the middle. New this year: we are making the cheese with a half layer of sheep milk and a half layer of goat milk. It will be sold in rounds (or half rounds) this week, but in the future the cheese will be the shape of a truncated pyramid. This cheese is bit firmer and more subtle in flavor than say the Ewe Bloom or Little Bloom on the Prairie, but it definitely has its following.

Roxanne: Introducing a new raw sheep milk cheese made in the style of a Pyrannees brebis.  It has a natural ivory colored rind (hence the name Roxanne, because it looks like our cross-bred doe Roxy) and buttery gouda-like interior. It has aged for about two months. Try a wedge and let us know what you think.

The Little Bloom on the Prairie, Angel Food (except for Urbana Market) and Ewe Bloom are not available until next week.

Expect our fresh, whole-milk ricotta the last weekend in May

Moonglo (our raw goat milk, washed rind tomme) will be coming back in mid-June.

Farm Dinners

Due to a last minute cancellation, we now have six openings for the first dinner on the farm "A Celebration of Spring."  You can make your reservations on line through the website: www.prairiefruits.com  Just go to the section "Dinners on the Farm" and then click on "Buy Dinners" and you will see each of the dinners listed. We still have plenty of openings for many of the other dinners, so feel free to take a look at them all and make your reservations now.  They fill up fast!

Prairie Fruits Farm Debuts in Boston/Cambridge MA at Formaggio Kitchen

As a native Bostonian, I am thrilled to announce that the acclaimed Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge MA will now be carrying our cheeses. We sent our first shipment of Ewe Bloom, Little Bloom on the Prairie and Krotovina to them this week. I imagine that the cheeses should be available in their stores this weekend. You might want to call them to make sure.  Please let us know if you were able to find them there, and what you think.