{"id":4204,"date":"2025-01-16T03:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/big-changes-for-landmark-creamery\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T03:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:02:16","slug":"big-changes-for-landmark-creamery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/big-changes-for-landmark-creamery\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Changes for Landmark Creamery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anna Landmark<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Landmark Creamery<\/a> recently celebrated a decade of crafting cheese. But 2024 was a milestone year for Anna Landmark and her company, Landmark Creamery, for many reasons.\u00a0 In April, cheesemaking activities shifted from a time-slot space at Cedar Grove Cheese<\/a> to a fully leased facility that will allow up to four times the output of Landmark cheeses including heralded award-winners like Anabasque and Tallgrass Reserve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI could now make cheese every day, if needed,\u201d says Landmark. \u201cWe have bigger vats to work with, and we are now just 15 minutes away from our milk source.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2023 Landmark Creamery entered a partnership with a local inn and restaurant, Seven Acre Dairy<\/a> (In a re-developed late 19th century cheese and butter factory) that resulted in the development of a micro-dairy where Anna now makes and sells artisan butter. Most recently, Nic Mink, a partner at Seven Acre has also purchased the interests of Landmark\u2019s original founding partner, Anna Thomas Bates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very curious. I like to be involved in things, and I always have my eyes open to other opportunities,\u201d Landmark says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Landmark Creamery History<\/h2>\n

The story of Landmark Creamery\u2019s founding reflects Anna\u2019s sense of adventure.\u00a0 Her grandparents were dairy farmers, but encouraged their six children to pursue anything else, so farming skipped her parents\u2019 generation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t grow up on a farm, but I did 4-H as a kid,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen I grew up, I mostly just missed being around the animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

She and her husband eventually started a hobby farm with a few sheep and goats, and she made cheese at home with that goat\u2019s milk with an eye toward becoming a licensed cheesemaker. Then there was a potluck dinner (involving Green County women with interests in sustainable agriculture) that changed everything. Anna Thomas Bates<\/a>, a blogger and food writer for the Milwaukee Journal at the time, was also at that meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe discovered that we lived in the same town,\u201d Landmark remembers. \u201cWe started to get to know each other and our friendship grew from that. I\u2019d go to her house and sip cocktails. I was working on my cheesemaker license, and she suggested the partnership.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thomas became the sales and marketing partner once the company began selling its sheep\u2019s milk and mixed milk cheese while Landmark, newly licensed, began working with Cedar Grove\u2019s Bob Wills to develop and perfect those cheeses. Prior to launch, the partners had hoped to set up a farmstead operation, Landmark recalls. She and her husband had raised sheep for meat and wool, but never milked them. But when the founders found a local farm that had developed a flock and was ready to begin milking, they opted out of farmstead.\u00a0\u201cThat shortened my timeline for launching by at least five years,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

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Assaf sheep \u0628\u062f\u0627\u0631\u064a\u0646, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a> via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Soon the partners were networking with others in Wisconsin who were involved with sheep\u2019s milk, including Mariana Marques de Almeida of Ms. J and Co<\/a>. Marques de Almeida is a biologist who specializes in the breeding of sheep. In 2017 she pioneered the importation of semen for a breed known as Assaf that originated in Israel and has flourished in Spain since the 1970s.\u00a0Assaf sheep are sturdier than other breeds and are significantly more productive and prolific, and Assaf milk is well-suited for cheesemaking. Marques de Almeida has continued her breeding work while developing a large flock and a state-of-the-art milking operation. In recent years, Landmark has sourced sheep\u2019s milk exclusively from Marques de Almeida\u2019s Assaf flocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Special Cheeses<\/h2>\n
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Anabasque by Landmark Creamery<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anabasque, the flagship of Landmark\u2019s line, is inspired by the centuries-old sheep\u2019s milk cheeses of the French Basque region. It was developed as part of Landmark\u2019s cheesemaking training and continues to be a top seller.\u00a0Tallgrass Reserve is a 100% cow\u2019s milk Alpine-style cheese made with milk from the pastured cows of a local cooperative. Landmark also makes a cow\u2019s milk Fontina, several mixed milk cheeses and plain and flavored brebis, the sheep\u2019s milk analog to fresh chevre. Rebel Miel is a beer-washed sheep\u2019s milk cheese that has sometimes been washed with honey-based mead. The line also includes a firm pecorino style, and a cheese inspired by Taleggio. <\/p>\n

The creamery\u2019s aging facility, located in the tiny town of Paoli, 12 miles southwest of Madison, also features a cheese shop and caf\u00e9.\u00a0 Local cheeses and Landmark butters are also sold at the caf\u00e9 and micro-creamery at nearby Seven Acre Dairy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Looking Forward<\/h2>\n

Does Landmark hope there are more opportunities in store?<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to build our own creamery,\u201d she says, \u201cAnd grow the business steadily.\u201d But she also sees challenges, as many retailers have moved away from buying and cutting wheels, and the food service sector faces its own challenges. Mink brings extensive experience in wholesale distribution, and in growing a small business, Landmark says. Together they plan to scale up the cheese business significantly in coming years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Expansion of small-ruminant cheesemaking throughout Wisconsin is expected to continue. That could lead to other opportunities including the beginning of a market for by-products from sheep\u2019s milk cheese.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is currently not enough volume to use the whey,\u201d Landmark says. \u201cIn Europe they are making sheep whey ricotta, or sheep milk whey powder, which is great because it has twice the protein of goat or cow whey.\u201d<\/p>\n

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