Cheese Lovers Newsletter (3.20.2021): Land O'Lakes set the standard
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...
Cheese Lovers Newsletter (3.7.2021): Follow-ups
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...
Cheese Lovers Newsletter (3.3.2021): Liquor Edition
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...
Cheese Lovers Newsletter (2.26.2021): Palmitic Oil feed impacting butter?
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...
Cheese Lovers Newsletter (2.22.2021): Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
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...
Cheese Lovers Newsletter (2.12.2021): Valentine's Day Date-Alemar/RHC Soft Cheese Spectacular!
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...
Cheese Lovers Newsletter (2.5.2021): Valentine's Day Gift Sets!
Hello Cheese Lovers!Frigid February has its warm spots with BirthdaysIt is February… and everyone knows what that means. It is birthday month for Lucas, baby Conan and much of the Sjostrom family, one of our employees and her family, and there’s also this little holiday that also celebrates love. We have seven different days of family members and friends written on our calendar into this normally 28-day month, plus St. Valentine’s Day. So it is pretty special to us as we get to celebrate something every few days – happy birthday to Grandpa Lowell, Andy, Lucas, Maggie, Conan, Uncle Joe,...
Cheese Lovers Newsletter (1.27.2021): We won!
We won! What an honor to be part of about 25% of the Good Food Award Nominees (https://goodfoodfdn.org/awards/finalists/) - an honor on its own accord - to be named 2021 Good Food Award Winners (https://goodfoodfdn.org/awards/winners/). We want to especially thank one of our partners and cheese sellers, Beau Vondra of Look's Marketplace (https://www.looksmarket.com/) of Sioux Falls, who pushed us to get involved with our North Fork Munster. If you're ever in Sioux Falls, you've got to check out the grocery/bakery/meat shop/restaurant beauty that is Look's... and you can see our cheeses in the case and curds on the menu. The...
Cheese Lovers Newsletter (1.22.2021): Will we be Good Food Winners?
Hello Cheese Lovers!What an action-packed start to the year in national/worldwide news and in cheese news. If you weren’t paying attention, the 20th was a pretty important day, internationally. Yes, there was a new President installed, a $730 million Powerball was won and the Minnesota Wild both played a game (important to note when that happens) and won said game… but also important is that the 20th of January is National Cheese Lovers Day. We hope you found a way to celebrate. If not, scroll down to the “order now” button and we can fix your issues. ;-)Good Food Awards...
Cheese Lovers Newsletter (1.15.2021): A new year of opportunities!
Hello Cheese Lovers!We were fortunate to be able to take a break from newsletter writing and some cheese activity the past week after the holiday rush. We also took a two-week break from deliveries to try to reset and look forward.The next 52 weeksFirst, we hope thinking about good-tasting cheese in your mouth could be a welcome distraction from the terrible events of this week and the past year. We are extremely optimistic about a much better 2021 for all of us, and hope you do your part in having a positive attitude. We too have been caught doom-scrolling or...