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Lazy Lady Farm

Lazy Lady Farm
Laini Fondiller
973 Snyderbrook Rd
Westfield, VT 05874 USA
Telephone 802-744-6365
email: laini@sover.net

Lazy Lady Farm is a small organic goat dairy located in the northeast kingdom of Vermont. We milk 40 registered Alpine goats on a seasonal basis. The goats kid (give birth) in early March and are milked until late December.

We make the cheese in small 50 gallon batches 5 days a week. I attend one farmers market every week in the summer and every other week throughout the winter and early spring. This market is located in Montpelier. Towards the fall after the milk production begins to drop l begin to make some of my mixed milk cheeses. Come December, and into January and February I begin making cows milk cheeses with milk purchased from 2 organic neighboring farms.

The cheese is ripened in a small geothermal cave located near the cheese plant. It is over l5 feet underground and maintains temperatures between 40 degrees in the winter and 55 degrees in the summer.

The farm is totally off the grid. We make our power with 14 solar panels and a small wind mill. We keep things pretty simple here in order to stay within the range of our electrical capacity.

Along with the goats, we diversify the farm with raising grass fed beef, whey fed pork, and pasture raised chickens. So we keep ourselves pretty busy around here.

Cheese Varieties

Goat:
Les Pyramids, Valencay, Capriola, La Roche, La Petite Tomme, Crumb Cake, Marbarella

Mixed Milk:
Trillium, Condisend, Demi Tasse, Sweet Emotions, and Mixed Emotions. Sweet Emotions is a bloomy rind semi ripened cheese made with milk and heavy cream.....one heck of a combination! Mixed Emotions is a large wheel (2 lb) raw milk cheese made with goat milk and a small amount of cream. It is ripened to perfection by the Cellars of Jasper Hill, who also market and distribute this great cheese.

Cow:
Oh My Heart, Barick Obama, Big Bang, Cowurce, Hazen's Notch, Fil-a-buster, and Buck Hill Sunrise. Oh my heart is a double cream bloomy rind semi ripened cheese. Barick Obama is also a double cream cheese in a square format. It is a washed rind cheese. Big Band is two cheeses in one. It is a raw milk cheese in a one pound wheel and a real treat. Fil-a-buster is a large 2 pound wheel surrounded by a spruce band. It is also a washed rind cheese more pungent than the Barick as it is washed more frequently and for a longer period of time. Buck Hill Sunrise is a raw milk bloomy rind cheese that is also ripened and distributed by the Cellars of Jasper Hill.