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Creamery is almost done

Yes the creamery is almost done for real, no April Fool's joke! It’s been quite a while since I last posted about our creamery project. Valentine's Day has come and gone, the annual California Artisan Cheese Festival is behind us, and I survived another birthday last week. In between all of that, we’ve been busy trying to wrap up this creamery project once and for all so we can focus on making cheese!  I know the creamery will never really be DONE done, I’m not completely delusional. There will always be something - some new or unanticipated problem or need, always requiring more time, more energy, and more money, all of which are running pretty low for us right now. It’s been 75 days since getting our building permit, and so much has happened, I don’t know where to start. I have both good news and bad news. Which do you want first? Let’s start with the good.

the ever changing list of things we had to do up to getting our CDFA license
the day after assembling the vat, we did a test run with water (cheaper than milk!)
our new/old draining tables, courtesy of our dear cheesy friends at Cowgirl Creamery
chart recorder for our vat, in case we want to make any pasteurized products
holding tanks for whey, which will be fed back to sheep and also to pigs
getting a 100% score on our first cheese plant inspection is champagne-worthy indeed!
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Giving thanks for progress

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and we have finally made some progress…not as much as I’d like, but I am thankful nonetheless! So what have we gotten done between Halloween and Thanksgiving? Quite a lot, actually. How much money has been spent so far? Also quite a lot.

We have a plan! This is a copy of our official site plan
Some of the vat parts are in these boxes. The vat itself will be arriving separately in a big crate.
Our very own documentation from the Department of Homeland Security, very official!