Open Creamery Day
Second Sunday of October
11 am - 3pm
Our Annual Open Creamery Day, held in October, is an opportunity to showcase our farm to the community. Visitors can enjoy freshly baked wood-fired pizza and sample our artisanal products.
Tour our Cheese Palace, meet our experts in cheese and sausage making, and interact with our dedicated staff who care for our goats. Additionally, greet our horses at the gate and observe our Livestock Guardian dogs in action. Our egg-laying chickens will also be on display. This event promises an array of engaging activities at our largest annual gathering.
Please mark your calendars and share this event with family and friends. We encourage attendees to bring coolers as you will likely want to take home our delectable goat meat, in-house sausages, cheese, kefir, and yogurt.
Please remember that we are a working farm and part of our job is to keep you and our animals healthy. To help us keep the Cheese Palace sparkling clean and prevent unwanted pathogens on our farm, please only bring clean clothes, clean shoes, and clean hands.
Our livestock guardian dogs take their job seriously, so please leave your pets at home.
Open creamery day activities
Join us for these wonderful activities
Bring your family out to explore our local farm. Learn how our cheese is made, and take a guided tour of the Cheese Palace! You can also get up close and personal and meet our dairy goats.
After you wash up from the farm visit, Lou will be waiting for you with fresh wood-fired pizza, while Leslie will give you samples of our delicious meat and dairy products.
Don’t forget to stop by the farm stand to take some home and share with your friends. Or keep it all to yourself!
Plan Your Visit
Find Your Way To our Farm
*Please read in a Maine accent😊
If you are North Bound:
I-95, Exit 161 East Newport
Take a left off the ramp on Rt 7 Moosehead trail then a mile or so you come to a 4-way blinking red light with Abraham’s Country Store on the right
Take a right on Rt 2, we are 1.6 miles on the left
If you are South Bound:
I-95, Exit 167 Etna/Dixmont
Right off the ramp onto Rt 143, drive a mile or two until you hit a 4-way stop
Take a left on Rt 2 towards Newport. You will pass Conant’s Orchards, pass Hillview Mini Barns. We are a mile past Hillview Mini Barns on the right. On top of a knoll!
Behind the magic…
Farmstead cheese making is an ancient art that traces back to Neolithic times. This craft is a passion we cherish, utilizing our land for browsing goats and our own hands to flip, roll, and create delicious cheese.
*Goats are browsers, unlike grazers such as sheep and cows. They prefer consuming leaves, small branches, and shrubs rather than grasses.