Cornwall on Hudson photo by Michael Nelson
March 19, 2024
Welcome! Click here to Login
News from Cornwall and Cornwall On Hudson, New York
News
Events
Donate
Our Town
Photos of Our Town
Education
Help Wanted
The Outdoors
Classifieds
Support Our Advertisers
About Us
Advertise with Us
Contact Us
Click to visit the
Official Village Site
Click to visit the
Official Town Site
Cornwall Public Library
Latest Newsletter

General News: Edgwick Farm Celebrated at Ribbon-Cutting

Talitha Thurau has fun cutting the ribbon.
Talitha Thurau has fun cutting the ribbon.
Donna Hammond offers some feta cheese quiche to Commissioner Aubertine.
Donna Hammond offers some feta cheese quiche to Commissioner Aubertine.
Talitha Thurau shows off the bags of cheese being made in the creamery to the Commissioner of Agriculture.
Talitha Thurau shows off the bags of cheese being made in the creamery to the Commissioner of Agriculture.
Visitors came to meet the goats on the farm.
Visitors came to meet the goats on the farm.
March 22, 2012

The dignitaries came to Orange County’s first micro-creamery, part of a goat farm on Angola Road on Wednesday to celebrate the establishment of a small sustainable agricultural operation.

Talitha Thurau and her partner in the creamery and in life, Dan Jones, welcomed about 100 neighbors, friends and fellow farmers to the ribbon-cutting ceremony held on the porch of the milk house and creamery. “This beautiful building is up and running and making cheese,” she said, recounting how she began raising goats on her property in 2005 to have milk for her children. She soon discovered that the goats produced more milk than they could consume and began making cheese.

Soon, she and Dan began laying plans for a new creamery, building the new structure and getting their license to make cheese in 2011. Down the slope from the creamery sits the goats’ hoop house, where newly-born kids and full-grown goats live.

Thurau and Jones set up the ribbon-cutting ceremony to show off a variety of Edgwick Farm’s goat cheeses and the creations of local cooks. Darrel Aubertine, the New York State Commissioner of Agriculture, and Rhonda Falkena, a representative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, mingled with people at the ceremony and sampled some of the feta cheese quiche tarts made by Donna Hammond of the Hudson Street Café and jams created by Lynn Goldman under her Coyote Kitchen label.

After touring the new creamery, Aubertine said that the cheese-making farm could be held up as a model of sustainable farming. He said that New York consumers increasingly want to know how their food is produced and increasingly turn to places like Edgwick Farm. “”It is possible on a small parcel of land to create a viable enterprise,” he said. “My hat is off to you.”

Cornwall deputy supervisor Mary Beth Greene Krafft thanked Jones and Thurau for their creative efforts. “The cheese puts Cornwall on the map,” she said.

Now that it is in full operation, Edgwick Farm will expand the marketing of its cheese, using a $120K grant for business development they received from the USDA last month. .
The cheeses are now available at the farm most weekends between 12 and 2 pm (check the farm website at edgwickfarm.wordpress.com or follow it on Facebook) and at some restaurants. If you visit the farm, bring your children to meet the herd of goats, including baby ones just a few days old.



Comments:

No comments have been posted.

Add a Comment:

Please signup or login to add a comment.



© 2024 by Cornwall Media, LLC . All Rights Reserved. | photo credit: Michael Nelson
Advertise with Us | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy