MARCH/APRIL 2024 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [MARCH/APRIL Newsletter]

Volume 17, Issue 2 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | March/April, 2024 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

History Makers Tour Held

A huge crowd appeared at Blackhawk Tech March 28 to hear 5 area cheesemakers relate their involvement in, and give views on, the state of cheese industry.

Cheese Contest Held in Madison

The 35th Biennial World Championship Cheese Contest was a success for Wisconsin Cheesemakers.  They once again demonstrated their exceptional craftsmanship earning 117 cheese awards. That’s more than the combined total of the subsequent six highest earning competing countries and states.

 

JAN/FEB 2024 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [JAN/FEB Newsletter]

Volume 17, Issue 1 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | Jan/Feb, 2024 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

NHCC receives Colony Brands donation

Director Deb Briggs and Treasurer Fayth Block receive a large donation from John Baumann, president of the Colony Brands Foundation, in December. The Foundation matches employee giving through its Associate Donation program to local non-profits. The company has long supported NHCC since our founding!

Monroe Main Street initiated another tradition this year as they held a Limburger Cheese drop to start the New Year. If the crowd on Monroe’s Square was any indication, this may become an annual event!

NOV/DEC 2023 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [NOV/DEC Newsletter]

Volume 16, Issue 9 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | Nov/Dec, 2023 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

Seppi Award—Ken Klassey was named volunteer of the year

Executive Director Donna Douglas was awarded Lifetime Membership to National Historic Cheesemaking Center at the Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon recently. She had served 13 years directing the efforts of the organization. We have a change in administration duties at the National Historic Cheesemaking Center. Donna will concentrate on a second term as Monroe Mayor.

OCT 2023 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [OCT Newsletter]

Volume 16, Issue 8 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | October, 2023 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

NOT IN THE CAN BUT BEHIND THE WAGON

Rudy Kaderly tells a recent group from Hudson Community Education about our beautifully restored wagon for hauling milk cans to the cheese factory. It sits outside
the Imobersteg Farmstead Cheese Factory.

SEPT 2023 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [SEPT Newsletter]

Volume 16, Issue 7 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | September, 2023 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

Cheesemaking Day at Imobersteg Factory.

On Saturday, September 9th, local cheesemakers made a 90-pound wheel of Swiss cheese in NHCC’s Imobersteg cheese factory. The annual oldtime cheesemaking demonstrations, previously held the second Saturday in June, had been suspended since June 2019, due to the global pandemic.

AUG 2023 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [AUG Newsletter]

Volume 16, Issue 6 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | August, 2023 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

Champions All! Fair auction nears $100,000

The Foreign Type Cheesemaker’s Association would like to announce the results of the 2023 Green County Fair Cheese Contest & Auction. We had 30 bidders with a total Auction of $93,554.00 on 79 pieces of cheese (a total of 393.9 pounds).

JULY 2023 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [JULY Newsletter]

Volume 16, Issue 5 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | July, 2023 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

There’s cheese at the depot again!

Visitors from San Diego, along with a friend from Australia, were among those that have toured the NHCC Museum the first two months (May and June) of 2023. Thirty-six states and international visitors from seven countries including Australia, Congo, Germany, Guatemala, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Mexico have visited!

 

JUNE 2023 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [JUNE Newsletter]

Volume 16, Issue 4 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | June, 2023 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

Tourism Secretary Anne Sayers Paid a visit to The Cheese Museum Mid-May!

Tourism secretary Anne Sayers popped into Monroe mid-May with stops in Paoli and Beloit. After greetings at Monroe’s Chamber of Commerce, she was given “the royal tour” of the Cheesemaking Center by Monroe Mayor Donna Douglas who is also the Center’s Executive Director. An enthusiastic Sayers commented following the tour that she “learned a lot” about cheesemaking in her short visit.

MAY 2023 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [MAY Newsletter]

Volume 16, Issue 3 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | May, 2023 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

AFS group Does a Dairy tour

The Cheese Center Museum was a multi-cultural hub of activity mid-April when it hosted AFS students from nine Wisconsin high schools. Schools involved were Oregon, Madison, Watertown, Rio, Viroqua, Cambridge, Columbus, Whitewater, and Monroe.

MARCH/APRIL 2023 CULTURE, CURDS AND CHEESY CHATTER [MARCH/APRIL Newsletter]

Volume 16, Issue 2 of  Culture, Curds and Cheesey Chatter | March/April, 2023 – DOWNLOAD FULL PDF NEWSLETTER

US Cheese Contest Wrapped up in February.

A Connecticut-based cheesemaker, who is originally from Monticello, took home the top prize at the 2023 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest. An Aged Gouda, made from the team at Arethusa Farm Dairy in Bantam, Connecticut, took first place. The gouda, named Europa, scored 98.739 out of 100, beating over 2,200 other entries in the competition.

 

The Eggebrecht Award: Dave and Glenda Buhlzer and Gary and Corie Grossen

The Eggebrecht Award, named for the late Contest Committee Chairman and “B-Team” founder Brian Eggebrecht, is presented each year to outstanding U.S. Cheese Contest volunteers. On February 22, 2023, Contest leaders presented the Eggebrecht Award to Dave and Glenda Buholzer and Gary and Corie Grossen.