Spring Brook Farm Cheese and Farms for City Kids were recently featured in a WCVB Channel 5 Boston news segment about Reading, Vermont. Click here to view the segment!
Fall 2022: Events and Awards!
World Cheese Awards
The 2022 World Cheese Awards took place in Wales on November 2 and 3, 2022, and two of our cheeses won medals! Both Tarentaise and the Full Ver-Monty won Bronze medals.
The World Cheese Awards is a truly global event. This year, 250 cheese experts from 38 nations judged a record 4,434 cheeses from 42 countries!
Spring Brook Farm’s annual Open House
On Saturday, October 8, 2022, Spring Brook Farm re-opened its doors to the community for an annual open house. It was a beautiful Fall day filled with apple cider pressing, tractor rides, cheese samples and cheese house tours. Thank you to everyone who came — we hope you enjoyed the day!
Summer 2022: Events and Awards!
After a multi-year hiatus due to Covid-19, the Spring Brook Farm Cheese team was excited to return to in-person events this summer. Below are some photo highlights from the events we attended. We even picked up a few awards along the way!
American Cheese Society
Three members of the Spring Brook Farm Cheese team attended the American Cheese Society’s annual conference, held in Portland, OR from July 20-23. They attended workshops such as “Dairy & Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” part of ACS’s Code Red Series addressing the dairy industry and climate change.
Spring Brook Farm Cheese won two awards at the 2022 ACS Competition!
The Full Ver-Monty won First Place in the Raclette-style category. We make the Full Ver-Monty exclusively for Wegmans grocery stores.
Reading won Third Place in the Raclette-style category.
The Big E
Spring Brook Farm Cheese won two awards at The Big E’s 2022 Cheese Competition!
Reading won Bronze in its category.
Tarentaise won Bronze in its category.
The Good Food Mercantile and Fancy Food Show
From June 11-14 Spring Brook Farm Cheese’s Sales and Marketing Director, Debbie Peterson, attended the Good Food Mercantile and the Summer Fancy Food Show, both held in New York City.
The Burlington Food and Wine Festival
On Saturday, June 25, three members of the Spring Brook Farm Cheese team joined dozens of other local and regional food and wine vendors at the well-attended Burlington Food and Wine Festival, held this year at HULA Lakeside in Burlington, VT.
The Vermont Cheese Council Cheese Summit
Three members of the Spring Brook Farm Cheese team sampled and sold cheese at the Vermont Cheese Council’s VT Cheese Summit on August 13.
2018 Awards Season
It has been an exciting and busy awards season for the team at Spring Brook Farm Cheese! We are forever humbled and grateful for the recognition of what we do and for the support of our cheese friends and family. Here’s the full list of 2018 awards:
Ashbrook
2nd place in category (American Cheese Society)
Silver Medal (Big E Cheese Competition)
Reading
1st place in category (American Cheese Society)
Gold Medal (Big E Cheese Competition)
Best in Show (Big E Cheese Competition)
2019 Good Food Awards Finalist
Tarentaise
1st place in category (American Cheese Society)
Gold Medal (Big E Cheese Competition)
Reserve Best in Show (Big E Cheese Competition)
Bronze Medal (World Cheese Awards, Norway)
Tarentaise Reserve
1st place in category (American Cheese Society)
Keep tabs on all of our tastings on our FACEBOOK page.
Taste Our Cheese: Burlington Wine & Food Festival
Join us Saturday, June 23 at Waterfront Park for the Burlington Wine & Cheese Festival! We’ll be there sampling as well as selling our cheeses and maple products from noon to 8:30pm. For tickets and more information, visit https://www.burlingtonwineandfoodfestival.com/.
Keep tabs on all of our tastings on our FACEBOOK page.
Taste Our Cheese: San Diego Artisan Cheese Festival
Join us at the first ever San Diego Artisan Cheese Festival! We’ll be there sampling our cheeses. They'll be available for purchase at the Venissimo Cheese Pop-Up as well! Stop by our booth and say hi! Saturday, June 9, from 12 - 7 pm at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. For tickets and more information, visit thetoastofthecoast.com.
See Spring Brook Farm in Action During a Visit from Will Studd's Cheese Chasers
Tarentaise Reserve Wins Best in Show 2017, American Cheese Society
The awards keep adding up for our Tarentaise Reserve. Named Best in Show at the 2017 American Cheese Society Judging and Competition in Denver, Colorado.
Ashbrook Named One of Culture's Best Cheeses of the Year
From Culture: the word on cheese. October 26, 2016
"Sister to wildly popular Reading and Tarentaise cheeses, Ashbrook is made with high-quality milk from two small area dairies—thanks to its expanding product line, Spring Brook is a boon to the local economy. Need more to feel good about? Parent organization Farms for City Kids offers agricultural education programs for urban youth."