{"id":3152,"date":"2025-05-19T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/avery-jones-shoots-for-the-stars-with-her-zodiac-inspired-cheeses\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:26:16","slug":"avery-jones-shoots-for-the-stars-with-her-zodiac-inspired-cheeses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/avery-jones-shoots-for-the-stars-with-her-zodiac-inspired-cheeses\/","title":{"rendered":"Avery Jones Shoots for the Stars with Her Zodiac Inspired Cheeses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even though Avery Jones grew up in her parent\u2019s creamery, she never thought she\u2019d get into cheesemaking, but when offered the opportunity, she made a sheep\u2019s milk cheese that quickly won awards. Now she\u2019s in college, but she\u2019s also the owner of Shooting Star Creamery<\/a>,<\/span> established with her father Reggie Jones of Central Coast Creamery<\/a> in 2019. Since opening her creamery has won several awards and produced several cheeses, named after Zodiac signs: Aries, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Leo.\u00a0Read our profile of <\/em>Sagittarius<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Growing up with Cheese<\/strong> <\/h2>\n
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Jones had been around the cheesemaking business since she was eight when her parents moved to Paso Robles, CA to start their creamery. In the first few years, there were few employees so her parents did most of the work and Jones would watch. \u201cI really started learning about cheese making [by] watching my parents. Sometimes they would let me operate one of our vacuum sealers, or help label cheese,\u201d Jones said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t until she was fifteen that she had the opportunity to make her own cheese. \u201cIn 2019, my dad just sort of turned to me: \u201cHey, you’ve been here awhile and you kind of know how to do everything. Do you want to try making your own cheese?\u201d And so of course, I was like, \u201cYeah, sure. Why not give it a try?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her dad taught her about how difficult bacteria cultures and different milks make cheese taste different. He also researched unmet opportunities in the cheese market to see where Shooting Star could find its place. \u201cWe found a hole in the market for specifically sheep\u2019s milk alpine cheese, which is where Aries came in,\u201d she explained. That cheese would go on to win awards.<\/p>\n

Cheese & School <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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For Jones, all of this was surprising. \u201cEven though my parents owned a cheese company, I never really thought of it as something that I would go into,\u201d Avery explained, \u201cI had this idea in my mind that it was so complicated that no high schooler could ever hope to be a part of it.\u201d She\u2019d thought she\u2019d have to study for years in college to be able to make cheese. \u201cI didn’t really think that it was something in my future,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

Right now, she is working on her degree, double majoring in biological sciences and theater, while her dad runs the creamery. When asked about the future, she said, \u201cI definitely think that cheese like Shooting Star will continue to be part of my life, but it’s not something I’m actively studying in college at the moment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now that she has her own cheese company, she works to raise awareness that \u201ccheese is not some astronomical out of reach thing. If you want to get into cheese, you can certainly do it even if you’re as young as I was when I was 15,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Zodiac Calendar <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Since her success with Aries, she\u2019s made three more cheeses, all named for Zodiac signs. When asked if there were plans to do all the signs of Zodiac calendar, she said while they do not have the space for all 12 at the facility\u2014Shooting Star and Central Coast Creamery share space\u2014but hopefully they\u2019ll be able to do all of them.<\/p>\n

For three of the four, she made the cheese first, and then matched it to the Zodiac sign. Scorpio, a washed rind sheep milk cheese, has a smelly odor: \u201cit’s kind of funky, like most Scorpios are thought to be,\u201d Avery noted. Leo, a bloomy rind sheep\u2019s milk, got its name for the mane-like white mold that is characteristic of bloomy cheeses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sagittarius came a bit after the cheese. They wanted to make a cheese from different milks; sheep\u2019s milk and cow\u2019s milk gouda. They looked for Zodiac signs associated with twos like Pisces and Gemini, but it didn\u2019t quite fit. Sagittarius, on the other hand, was a hybrid creature of a horse and a man, which fit the bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Giving Back <\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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In addition to helping to pay her way her through college, Jones is using the proceeds from the company to give back to the community. She contributes some of the profits to AmpSurf<\/a>, a non-profit rehabilitative surf organization in Pismo Beach, that Jones says, \u201cHelps Veterans and amputees find a thing that takes their mind off of everything they can’t do. It focuses on everything they can do and helps them recover mentally and physically.\u201d She chose the organization after reading a book about by her grandfather\u2019s experience in the military, \u201cTowards the end of the book, he was talking about how he came back and felt like he was out of place, and he was really struggling with mental health and to find a purpose,\u201d she shares.<\/p>\n

Lessons Learned <\/strong><\/h2>\n

While her company is barely four years old, Avery Jones has learned a lot in that time. \u201cCheese is a very, very complicated business to get into,\u201d she said. It can be very finicky, she explained, if one thing is off, the cheese won\u2019t come out tasting right even though it\u2019s made just the same as all the other cheeses. Something could be wrong with the milk, or another ingredient can be expired.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With COVID-19, she discovered a lot about supply lines since both creameries source their milk from dairies. Plus, she understood the importance of restaurants for cheesemakers, since most had to shut down, they sold mostly to cheese shops.<\/p>\n

She recalled that they had several cases of Leo that wouldn\u2019t sell. \u201cWe actually had to discount it like 50 to 75% to get a different cheese shop to buy it. Because otherwise it would have gone bad. Yeah, we were really struggling at the beginning of COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite all the challenges, Shooting Star and Avery Jones continue to flourish. While it\u2019s unclear if cheese will be her career path after college or not, undoubtedly her philosophy, \u201cShoot for the stars and try to do everything to the best of your ability\u201d will guide her well no matter what she decides to do next.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though Avery Jones grew up in her parent\u2019s creamery, she never thought she\u2019d get into cheesemaking, but when offered the opportunity, she made a sheep\u2019s milk cheese that quickly won awards. Now she\u2019s in college, but she\u2019s also the owner of Shooting Star Creamery, established with her father Reggie Jones of Central Coast Creamery … Okumaya devam et “Avery Jones Shoots for the Stars with Her Zodiac Inspired Cheeses”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milk-and-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}