COWGIRL CREAMERY:

For over a decade, furthering the fine art of farmstead cheesemaking...

In 1997, Sue Conley and Peggy Smith opened Cowgirl Creamery in Pt. Reyes Station, a picturesque postage-stamp-of-a-town on the coast about an hour north of San Francisco. They started with an old barn, made it beautiful, put in a small plant for making hand-crafted cheese, bought organic milk from the neighbor, Straus Family Creamery... and before long the world found them! From the beginning, they wanted to make delicious, artisan cheese, to be environmentally responsible, and they also wanted to support their cheesemaking friends in being sustainable land stewards. Today, Cowgirl Creamery continues to make just a small collection of cheese -- four, soft aged and three fresh, totaling about 3,000 pounds per week. However, their circle of cheesemaking friends has grown like wildfire and they now distribute extraordinary artisan cheeses from over 200 of America's and Europe's most prized producers.


Artisan cheesemaking preserves a rural way of life

Farmstead cheese from small-scale producers always has a story, quite unlike commodity cheeses, and can be compared to making fine wine. It is possible to name the cheesemaker, identify the pasture where the animals grazed, and to name the breed of cow, sheep or goat whose milk was used. Artisan cheese comes with a sense of place, ecological values, and a unique relationship between the artisan and the raw materials. All of the cheesemakers we work with have great respect for the land and the animals they are the custodians of. In buying farmstead cheese rather than industrially produced cheese, you will support the fine art of farmstead cheesemaking, enjoy a wide range of distinctive cheeses that are full of nuance and flavor, help to insure jobs in rural areas, and contribute to protecting farmlands from development.


Please come visit us!

We have shops in Pt. Reyes, San Francisco and Washington DC and you can visit our Cowgirl Creamery cheesemaking facility in Pt. Reyes. Big news! We built our second creamery in Petaluma, California in 2008, where you can take a tour.

Learn about our Pt. Reyes Station and Petaluma Creamery Tours


Shops:


Cowgirl Creamery at Tomales Bay Foods
80 4th Street
Point Reyes Station, California
415.663.9335
Open Wednesday thru Sunday

Cowgirl Creamery at
The Ferry Plaza

One Embarcadero
 San Francisco, California
415.362.9354
Open 7 days a week
Cowgirl Creamery
in Washington DC

919 F Street NW, Penn Quarter, Washington DC
202.393.6880
Open Monday thru Saturday


Buy Cowgirl Creamery Cheese!

Visit our online store to purchase Cowgirl cheese collections and other cheese-related merchandise.

Visit the Library of Cheese!

Learn more about the world's great cheeses by exploring our searchable database.

How We Make Our Cheese

Read how we make our cheese with this step-by-step tutorial.

Tour One of Our Creameries!!

See our artisan cheesemaking for yourself.

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