Hey Cheese Lovers! Welcome to summer (ok we skipped a season), improving COVID situations and Curd Fest 2021 (or 2020 postponed, if you’d rather) planning! In this issue we talk about Curd Fest, Grilled Cheese Boxes, Burgers and our state’s cheesemaking history.Green Cheese Curd Week!Happy St. Patrick's Day week - the week we make green cheese curds and after a one-year hiatus will return to the annual Padua Parade. It's always 1:00 p.m. on St. Patrick's Day, rain or shine. Want green curds? You can get them after Tuesday (but for Fargo order it wouldn't arrive until Thursday).Operating Status: We...

Good Morning, Cheese Lovers!Happy Monday morning. With two-weeks of second vaccine inoculation in our pockets, all four of us plus kids were able to attend a little-bit-bigger family gatherings yesterday for the first time in a long time. It felt great.ONE MINUTE FLUID MILK SURVEY - SHOULD WE BOTTLE MILK?First, a quick survey - we are considering bottling milk on our farm, just for delivery, our in-farm store and at farmers markets. Help us by answering this one-minute survey, here: https://forms.gle/yv7QAZdf7Hkmbqs78We hope that sun, warm weather, vaccinations and cheese (the four keys to good health), continue to keep the world...

Good morning, Cheese Lovers!Happy Easter to those who celebrate. To those who don’t, hope you’re having a great weekend. We’re expecting 66°F today and 73°F tomorrow at the Padua International Airport weather station (or Glenwood Municipal Airport) so it will be great egg-finding weather.Alise is up this morning filling our platter orders for pickup and delivery – which has been our biggest Easter Week ever. Thanks for all your support. We are open on the farm Noon to 12:30 today, and all foreseeable Fridays and Saturdays with Farm Tours at 12:30 p.m. This is your last chance to order. Sunday...

Good afternoon, Cheese Lovers!Things are heating up for a beautiful week. We’re available for tours at 12:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday with the store open and our Panini Maker churning out grilled cheese in the store from 12 noon to 2:30 p.m.No routes this week, just local delivery available for those within an hour of here. However, you can still order for future Twin Cities and Fargo Routes already today.Curd Fest :Yes, we pulled the trigger! Reserve your spot at Curd Fest 2021, on June 19.Tickets are $12 in advance, and will be $15 at the door. Advanced tickets...

We’re coming to you a day early as we are again running the cheese delivery a day early. Orders are due by Sunday (tomorrow) midnight for a route that makes a boomerang from Brooten to Minneapolis (and the greater west Metro), Mankato, New Ulm, Marshall, Windom, Worthington and Sioux Falls. It looks like a beautiful weekend, and we’re excited to welcome people on the farm for our outdoor tours, as well as cheese shop browsing.Padua Parade is a blast!In a little bit of return to normalcy, we entered the Padua St. Patrick’s Day parade with the easiest float we’ve ever...

Hello Cheese Lovers,Quick Liquor RecapBack to our regularly scheduled cheese programming from here on. If you do want to keep up with liquor updates please respond as such. We don't anticipate making a newsletter or anything soon, but things change fast.Thank you to the literal dozens of you who answered our survey questions. We aren't surprised but 100% of survey respondents to a survey about liquor like their liquor. And 99.3% were confident that they'd drink a whey-based spirit, with 0.7% open to hesitantly try it. :-)While, again, this may be years off or never - this is not a...

We said we’d have no Cheese Lovers newsletter this week, and that ended up being half true. This is a Liquor Newsletter as we want to update you on a few things on the liquor side of our world:NOON TODAY – Drink Local Day of ActionA survey – Redhead Spirits– are you in?????????And, if it continues to get nicer and you’re thinking about heading this way this weekend, watch our Facebook page or give us a shout via email and we’ll figure out if we can be open on Saturday.If you don’t care about booze, there’s probably no reason to...

Hello Cheese Lovers!We'll take a break next week, but we got a timely question so we put our newsletter together a week ahead of schedule.Opening plans – stay tuned!We essentially have a plan that looks like this: if it’s hot, pay attention! As things warm up on near-coming Fridays and Saturdays we’ll post on our Facebook page and via this newsletter that we’ll be open. What does warm or hot look like? It is hard to say. Sometimes that’s 38 degrees and sunny, other times it might be 60 degrees, windy and cloudy. But, we’re excited to get back open...

Hello Cheese Lovers!One thing we love, is reading. We especially love Dr. Seuss. When the Sjostrom family took vacation to San Diego a few years ago, we headed to La Jolla just to see where the real Dr. Seuss lived and some of his originals in an art gallery. He has made reading fun for so many.In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, Read Across America Day, and I Love to Read Month, we put together an interactive and educational cheese box! In this fun-filled box, you and your favorite kiddo(s) will receive:• a half pound of Redhead Creamery’s Red Temper...

Hello Cheese Lovers!Your Valentine's Day Date with us: Our Alemar/Redhead Soft Cheese Spectacular!We've teamed up with Keith, Craig and Alex at Alemar Cheese (within the Food Building in Northeast Minneapolis) to bring you a few more boxes (10 boxes, to be exact) of our Soft Cheese Spectacular. You can pick them up tonight at the Food Building from Alex at Alemar from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., or anytime today or tomorrow at Redhead Creamery HQ in Brooten.Description: Redhead Creamery LLC and Alemar Cheese Company’s Soft Cheese Spectacular! This incredible cheese box is jam packed with four delicious soft cheeses and...