Valley Shepherd Creamery

About Valley Shepherd Creamery

We are an old-fashioned creamery Located on 120 rolling acres in Long Valley, Morris County, NJ, within an hour of New York City! We welcome you and your family to a unique farm experience in New Jersey. We have combined years of artisan cheesemaking expertise with modern equipment from around the world and age-old European dairy farming practices to create Valley Shepherd Creamery. We take pride in being able to educate and involve the visitor in the daily life of a real working sheep dairy while creating over fifty artisan dairy products.

There are no cheese-making machines here. Just vats where the milk is warmed up, cultured, turned to a curd, cut up, and molded into wheels. We follow methods used by cheese makers for thousands of years. Based on hand feel we make decisions such as temperature changes, length of stirring time, and finally, the right moment for the molding and pressing stages. It takes years to develop the confidence to adjust mid-process for milk that is richer in protein because of a new pasture or milkfat content that dropped because of a very hot day in the barn but such is the beauty of a craft well executed. That is our passion. That is our mission.