The following offer workshops appropriate for beginners and hobbyists. Check their websites often for updates. Just want to taste and learn about cheese?

Appleton Creamery (Maine)
beginning and advanced cheesemaking, including one-on-one instruction
also sheep dairying and cheesemaking, on-farm

Big Island Cheese Hui (Hawai'i)
occasional beginning cheesemaking workshops

Black Mesa Ranch (Arizona)
3-day cheesemaking and goat husbandry immersion, on-farm

Bobolink Dairy (New York)
beginning cheesemaking in small classes (limit 4), on-farm

Canal Junction Farmstead Cheese (Ohio)
occasional cheesemaking classes

CheeseLinks (Victoria, Australia & other sites)
variety of workshops, most involving single types of cheese

The Cheesemaker.com (Wisconsin)
workshops specifically geared to home cheesemakers

Cheesesmithy (Michigan)
basic and advanced cheese making

Glengarry Cheesemaking & Dairy Supply (Ontario)
beginners' cheesemaking workshops

Heamour Farm (New York)
spring and fall workshops, often with guest cheesemakers, on-farm

HLA Country Farm (Oklahoma)
milking and cheesemaking workshops, on-farm

Moonwise Herbs (Washington State & Wisconsin)
home cheese making classes

Mozzarella Company (Texas)
make fresh mozzarella and ricotta cheese

New England Cheesemaking Supply (New Hampshire)
beginning and advanced cheesemaking and affinage

OakMoon Creamery (North Carolina)
beginners' and advanced cheesemaking and goat husbandry on-farm

Pholia Farm (Oregon)
beginners' and advanced cheesemaking and goat husbandry on-farm

Ploughshare Institute for Sustainable Culture (Texas)
one-day workshops on hard and soft cheeses

River Valley Cheese (Fall City WA)
make whole milk ricotta and Monterey Jack; take home wheel to age yourself

Sand Creek Farm (Texas)
milk cow workshops; home dairy products workshops, on-farm

Standing Stone Nubians (Tennessee)
on-farm goat cheese making workshops

Sullivan's Pond Farm (Virginia)
occasional dairy product workshops on- and off-farm

Valley Shepherd Creamery (New Jersey)
participants make an individual wheel of sheep milk hard cheese, which is aged at the farm for later pickup, on-farm

Washington County Cheesemaker's Guild (upstate New York)
associate cheese maker program includes choice of beginning cheesemaking and/or milking skills workshops (scroll to bottom of page for link)

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)

Canal Junction Farmstead Cheese (Ohio)
sensory evaluation events

Cheese Impresario (southern California)

Cherry Grove Farm (New Jersey)
cheese tasting and cheese primer - basics of cheese appreciation

Mozzarella Company (Texas)
pair cheeses with wine and other food and drink

Murray's Cheese (New York City)
they also do a 3-day "boot camp" for serious cheese aficionados

Seattle Cheese Festival (May)

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

Sweetgrass Dairy (Georgia)
tastings and pairings at on-farm shop

Valley Shepherd Creamery (New Jersey)
cheese and wine/ale tastings with discussions

Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese at University of Vermont

Washington County Cheesemaker's Guild (upstate New York)
annual fall cheese tour of farmstead cheese facilities; associate cheese maker program includes choice of tastings and/or cooking with cheese classes (scroll to bottom of page for link)

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