Fermented dairy products have been being produced and enjoyed millennia. This is a very diverse category includes hard cheeses, soft cheeses, spreadable cheese, molded cheeses, several types yogurt, buttermilk, kefir, and more. This remarkable diversity is due to the amazing number of variables involved in making fermented dairy products. For example, the milk can come from cows, water buffalo, sheep, goats, yaks, and camels to name a few. At the same time, while most dairy ferments involve a Lactic Acid Bacteria (of which there are a great variety) some involve other bacteria ranging from Arthrobacter spp. to Yarrowia spp, as well as molds such as Penicillium camemberti which is used in making Camembert and Penicillium roqueforti which is used in making Roquefort.
Explore the variety that is produced here in Washington by these producers:
21 Acres |Woodinville, WA
Acme Farms Cheese |Acme, WA
Appel Farms | Ferndale, WA
Beecher’s Handmade Cheese | Seattle, WA
Black Sheep Creamery | Adna, WA
Burton Hill Farm and Dairy | Vashon, WA
Cascadia Creamery |Trout Lake, WA
Cherry Valley Dairy | Duvall, WA
Chimacum Valley Dairy | Chimacum, WA
Conway Family Farm Camas, WA
Dee Creek Farm | Woodland, WA
Evergreen Creamery | Trout Lake, WA
Fantello Farmstead Creamery | Enumclaw, WA
Glendale Shepherd | Clinton, WA
Golden Glen Creamery| Bow, WA
Gothberg Farms |Bow, WA
Grace Harbor Farms Custer,WA
Harmony Fields|Bow, WA
Herron Hill Dairy |Home, WA
Jacobs Creamery | Chehalis, WA
Kurtwood Farms | Vashon, WA
Little Island Creamery | Cathlamet, WA
Lost Peacock Creamery | Olympia, WA
Meadowwood LLC | Enumclaw, WA
Monteillet Fromagerie | Dayton, WA
Mountain Lodge Farm | Eatonville, WA
Mt Townsend Creamery | Port Townsend, WA
Mystery Bay Farm | Nordland,WA
Neighbor Lady Cheese | Renton, WA
North Land of Milk and Honey| Trout Lake, WA
Pine Stump Farms | Omak,WA
Pleasant Valley Dairy | Ferndale,WA
Samish Bay Cheese | Bow, WA
Skagit Maid Creamery | Bow, WA
Silver Springs Creamery| Lynden, WA
Sunny Pine Farm | Twisp, WA
Tieton Farm and Creamery | Tieton, WA
Twin Sisters Creamery | Ferndale, WA
Venison Valley Farm & Creamery | Vashon, WA
Whiskey Hill Goat Dairy | Port Townsend, WA
WSU Creamery | Pullman, WA
Yarmuth Farms | Darrington, WA
If you are a Washington State fermented dairy product producer and we missed you on this list, please feel free to contact Bri to be added.
