natural cheese done right
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 & 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 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 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
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.
recognition & awards
Kashar:
Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2022, First Place ACS 2019, First Place ACS 2016 + Good Food Awards Finalist 2016
Humble:
Super Gold Medal World Cheese Awards 2023, Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2019 Bergamo
Idyll:
Super Gold Medal World Cheese Awards 2023, Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2022, Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2019 Bergamo
Jack’s Blue:
Super Gold Medal World Cheese Awards 2024, Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2023, Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2022
West West Blue:
Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2022
Parish Hill Creamery:
Resistance Award, Slow Cheese, 2019 Bra
Parish Hill Creamery:
Slow Food Vermont, Snail of Approval
Reverie:
Gold Medal World Cheese Awards 2024, First Place ACS 2019, First Place ACS 2018,
+ Third Place ACS 2017
Vermont Herdsman:
Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2024, Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2023, Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2022, Second Place ACS 2018 + First Place ACS 2015
Suffolk Punch:
Silver Medal World Cheese Awards 2022, Second Place ACS 2019 + Third Place ACS 2015
Hermit:
Bronze Medal World Cheese Awards 2024
Cornerstone:
Gold Medal World Cheese Awards 2022,
from up on parish hill
