Kingsmeade Artisan Cheese

Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and Janet King have quietly created a broad variety of supreme ewe and also cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.

Kingsmeade began making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain and lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep are big, contented and full of character-- no need to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice as well as come on their very own.

After years of hands on care, meticulous records and also genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually turned into New Zealand's very first registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.

Today, Kingsmeade makes 9 various varieties of cheese, the majority of from ewe's milk and some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, ranging from aged difficult varieties to deliciously creamy.

Tranquility and quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the very first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the day-to-day milking, cheesemaking, cutting as well as packaging. Each set of cheese is hand made in the factory on the farm, best alongside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders around New Zealand.