Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and also Janet King have silently created a broad variety of supreme ewe and cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.
Kingsmeade started out making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain and also lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep are big, contented and also filled with individuality-- no demand to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice and begin their own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records as well as genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually become New Zealand's very first registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes 9 different varieties of cheese, the majority of from ewe's milk as well as some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, varying from aged hard varieties to deliciously creamy.
Calm and also quietly spoken, Miles is hands-on from the initial 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, appropriate next to the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders around New Zealand.