Pete Messmer of Lively Run Dairy & Turning Farmers' Surplus Milk into Cheese for Food Banks
Sustainable Dish Podcast
English - May 19, 2020 15:15 - 36 minutes - 32.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 226 ratingsAlternative Health Health & Fitness health fitness business lifestyle nutrition exercise weightloss paleo diet interview Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This pandemic has highlighted many weaknesses in our global food system, including food shortages and the need for more resilient, local food systems. For one artisanal cheese maker in the North East, however, these problems created a perfect opportunity to demonstrate how local food can solve pandemic-related food supply problems.
In today’s podcast, we speak with Pete Messmer, Head Cheesemaker at Lively Run Dairy in Interlaken, NY, about how Coronavirus has affected his business. The farm processes milk from roughly 600 goats from around the area into a variety of artisanal cheeses that it supplies to local restaurants as well as producing cow’s milk cheese.