Drum roll please… official results for the 83rd British Empire Cheese Show:
Cheddar
Specialty
Butter
Congratulations to Ontario cheesemakers Black River, Empire, Fifth Town, Glengarry, Maple Dale and Monforte on your wins. To Stephanie Diamont at Fifth Town for the award for highest aggregate score in Sheep and Goat milk’s cheeses.
Big thank you to Alan and Wendy Gibbons and all the other volunteers who do the hard work of keeping this Eastern Ontario tradition rolling. Contact COCA if you’d like to help with next year’s show.
Contributed by Galen Newman – Invest in Cheese team
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Contributed by Karin Desveaux-Potters, EDO, Gastronomy Cluster
Happy Birthday, Fifth Town!
- Quinte Crest and Rose Haus Cheeses
Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Company turns two this weekend! First opening its’ doors in 2008, growth has been fast and furious for the teeny, tiny, green dairy in Cressy, Prince Edward County.
The artisan cheese business is currently “ripe” as industry trends in the food world lean toward hand crafted, unusual cheeses that tempt and challenge the palette; Fifth Town is producing some of the most exciting products within this genre.
Fifth Town and the Rose House Museum have combined their interests in keeping tradition and local history alive by working to officially launch a new cows’ milk, single note, washed rind cheese this weekend called Rose Haus.
The Rose House Museum is just minutes down the road from Fifth Town. “We wanted to call it Rose House after the museum but changed it to Rose Haus to again, connect it to the Germanic influence in the area”. Fifth town will be donating 10% of the retail sales to the museum.
Among many awards and acknowledgements that Fifth Town has received, the dairy was most recently named a “Canadian B Corporation”, which is the result of receiving a very high score from both customers and staff on criteria rating it as an overall responsible, respectfully operated company.
What has the secret of Fifth Town’s success been? In a word, people. Petra Cooper, President and founder of Fifth Town, is acutely aware of the importance of creating an environment that enables employees to feel engaged, valued and appreciated in the workplace.
Says office manager Silvia Botnick “To me, Fifth Town is not a job, it’s a passion…I just want to give the best I have and help in any way so that people will become Fifth Town fans like we are here at the dairy.”
The retail staff echo Silvia’s sentiments: “Here at Fifth Town we are all part of a family style team – without being family. Just as cheese has many ingredients we the staff have many ingredients to complete our family – the end result is great cheese from a great family”.
Be sure to join Fifth Town this weekend to help celebrate their birthday on Saturday June 26 from 1-5pm at their “Horn Trip Birthday Party”.
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A few months ago we took the initiative to get in touch with Culture Cheese Magazine, America’s first cheese-devoted magazine, to help spread the word about Invest In Cheese.
A unique initiative to Eastern, Ontario Invest In Cheese was launched last year to take advantage of the high groth opportunitiy in small scale and artisan cheese. This industry is currently a $300 million category in Ontario. Over the next decade, this number is expected to grow to $400 million.
The current market share of the Ontario artisan cheese industry is approximately $5 million and over the next 10 years there is an opportunity to increase the production and distribution of artisan cheese to capture a larger share of the market.
For more than a century, Eastern Ontario has been known for its cheese and combining the already existing cheese facilities in the Four-County Region, along with the knowledge of this growth opportunity, makes the region an area full of passionate and successful cheesemakers with room for many more.
One of the first steps the four Counties took together was to develop a website that focused on artisan cheese to help investors establish themselves here. Thus Invest In Cheese was born.
Last week I was like a kid on candy when the magazine arrived with our information in it. It was an exciting step in our direction forward. Here is the article snippit.
In other news, as you will have noticed, our website has had a bit of a makeover recently. Please take a little tour around and let us know what you think, we weclome your comments.
Caitlin
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