Cape Breton farmer produces sheep cheese

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Others are buying sheep to produce milk

A new type of cheese is now available for purchase in Cape Breton.

It's firm and tastes like old cheddar, but this fromage is not made from cow or goat milk. It's produced from sheep's milk.

Ron Muise, a farmer in Grand Mira North, located about 36 km from Sydney, said he never doubted the sheep cheese concept, but others had some questions.

"When we started this venture a few years ago now, people looked at me very funny and said, 'You're going to milk what?'" he said.

His company is called Wandering Shepherd Cheese.

The hard, cheddar-like sheep cheese is available now, along with yogurt and feta cheese made from cow's milk. His product list will expand in the spring when he can harvest and use fresh sheep milk.

The new product is prompting others on Cape Breton Island to breed sheep.

Estelle Levangie and her husband, Tim, have just started their own farm in Millville.

She said Muise's sheep cheese business is a good opportunity for them and for other new farmers.

Read more at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/12/29/ns-sheep-cheese-cape-breton.html
 
 
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