natural cheese done right

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INTENTIONAL CHOICES. EXCEPTIONAL CHEESE.

At Parish Hill Creamery we educate, orchestrate, and advocate for the fermentation and transformation of raw milk into exquisite, natural cheese.

Tradition, sustainability, legacy, and community are at the center of everything we do.

what we do

TEACHING & CONSULTINGIt is possible to make good choices and great cheese. Find out why things are done while you are learning how things are done.  Peter Dixon draws on over 37 years of cheesemaking, as well as 24 years of consulting …

TEACHING & CONSULTING

It is possible to make good choices and great cheese. Find out why things are done while you are learning how things are done.  

Drawing on over 40 years of cheesemaking and 30 years of consulting, Peter and Rachel work with people engaged in or interested in making cheese and dairy products, farmers and cheesemakers to research and develop, or improve their milk processing businesses.

OUR CHEESESWe make raw milk cheese.  We make cheese seasonally - only when the cows are out on the hillside pastures that have been grazed rotationally and regeneratively for nearly 20 years.  Our starter cultures are clabbered milk f…

OUR CHEESES

We make raw milk cheese.  We make cheese seasonally - only when the cows are out on the unseeded, hillside pastures that have been grazed rotationally and regeneratively for over 20 years.  Our starter cultures are clabbered milk from Sonia, Helga, Clothilde, and Abigail, and have been propagated at the creamery since we started making cheese at Parish Hill.  

We are the only American cheesemakers in distribution exclusively using natural methods.

A TRUE AMERICAN ORIGINALThree cheesemakers made the same cheese, or did they? What happens when we all follow one recipe, propagate acidifying cultures from our cheese milk, use the same forms, and encourage wild rinds?   The Cornerstone Project exp…

A TRUE AMERICAN ORIGINAL

Three cheesemakers made the same cheese, or did they? What happens when we all follow one recipe, propagate acidifying cultures from our cheese milk, use the same forms, and encourage wild rinds?

The Cornerstone Project explores an approach to cheesemaking that demonstrates the elemental nature of the raw milk. We create a new cheese by looking back in time, and innovate by returning to traditional methods.

who we are

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Educators. Creators. Makers. Consultants. Advocates. Cheese Lovers.

We believe making natural cheese is not only possible, but inevitable.  You can make cheese naturally, using traditional methods and ingredients. We can show you how.

seasonal, handmade, raw milk cheese

we make cheese by hand. 

from picking up milk at the farm, to fermentation and flocculation in the vat, to hooping, salting, flipping and washing, brushing and hanging, and ultimately readying for market.

we do it all.

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recognition & awards

 
 
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Kashar:
First Place ACS 2019, First Place ACS 2016 + Good Food Awards Finalist 2016

Humble:
Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2019 Bergamo

Idyll:
Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2019 Bergamo

Parish Hill Creamery:
Resistance Award, Slow Cheese, 2019 Bra

Parish Hill Creamery:
Slow Food Vermont, Snail of Approval

Reverie:
First Place ACS 2019, First Place ACS 2018,
+ Third Place ACS 2017

Vermont Herdsman:
Second Place ACS 2018 + First Place ACS 2015

Suffolk Punch:
Second Place ACS 2019 + Third Place ACS 2015