The following offer cheesemaking classes appropriate for beginners and hobbyists. Check their websites often for updates:

Appleton Creamery (Maine)

Ballard Family Dairy and Cheese (Idaho)

Big Island Cheese Hui (Hawai'i)

Black Mesa Ranch (Arizona)

Bobolink Dairy (New York)

CheeseLinks (Victoria, Australia & other sites)

The Cheesemaker.com (Wisconsin)

Cheesesmithy (Michigan)

Country Living Workshop (annual, in Washington State)

Glengarry Cheesemaking & Dairy Supply (Ontario)

Heamour Farm (New York)

HLA Country Farm (Oklahoma)

Homestead Heritage (Texas)

Moonwise Herbs (Washington State & Wisconsin)

New England Cheesemaking Supply (New Hampshire)

OakMoon Creamery (North Carolina)

Pholia Farm (Oregon)

Sand Creek Farm (Texas)

Shelburne Farms (Vermont)

Standing Stone Nubians (Tennessee)

Sullivan's Pond Farm (Virginia)

The Cheesemaker (Wisconsin)

Valley Shepherd Creamery (New Jersey)

The following businesses, events and institutions conduct regular or occasional cheese tastings, open to the public. Also check the web sites of individual cheesemakers.

American Cheese Society Festival of Cheese (location varies, August)

Artisanal Cheese (Manhattan)

Cheese Impresario (southern California)

Los Angeles International Dairy Competition (Los Angeles)

Murray's Cheese (New York City)

NOFA-VT (Vermont)

Oregon Cheese Festival (March)

Seattle Cheese Festival (May)

Slow Food (both local events and gigantic cheese festival in Italy)

Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese at University of Vermont

Washington County Cheesemaker's Guild (upstate New York)

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