Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and Janet King have silently created a broad range of supreme ewe and also 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 as well as lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep allow, contented and also filled with personality-- no requirement to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice and come on their own.
After years of hands on care, meticulous records and also genetic studies, Miles' flock has become New Zealand's very first registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.
Today, Kingsmeade makes 9 various varieties of cheese, a lot of from ewe's milk and also some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, varying from aged difficult varieties to deliciously creamy.
Calmness as well as silently spoken, Miles is hands-on from the very first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the daily milking, cheesemaking, cutting and packaging. Each set of cheese is hand made in the manufacturing facility on the farm, right beside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders all over New Zealand.