PRODIGAL FARM

Let’s work hard and get dirty! This mixed milk wheel is a seven-pound gem utilizing the fatty qualities of cow’s milk with the structured flavor profile of goat’s milk. It is buttery and rich with a funky yet linear flavor profile.

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow & goat’s milk aged 5 months

What’s the Type?

• semi-hard natural rind

Where in the world?

• Prodigal Farm in Rougemont, North Carolina

Reminiscent of how your house smells when you throw open the windows on the first vaguely warm day in spring. This natural rind cheese tastes like sweet grasses and musty hay with the texture of whipped butter.

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow’s milk aged at least 14 days

What’s the Type?

• natural rind semihard

Where in the world?

• Prodigal Farm in Rougement, North Carolina

The pristine white paste is sharply contrasted by the striking blue/grey/white rind. It is lactic, crumbly, and finishes with a lingering note of bacon

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized goat’s milk aged 1 month

What’s the Type?

• blue & ashed rind

Where in the world?

• Prodigal Farm in Rougement, North Carolina

A bold and pungent blue worthy of consideration by any true-blue lover. It is pleasantly smooth and sweet with caramel like notes that finish very sweet and grassy.

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow’s milk aged 5 months

What’s the Type?

• blue

Where in the world?

• Prodigal Farm in Rougemont, North Carolina

These bloomy wheels are fluffy downy white on the outside with a pearly white and crumbly paste. They are tangy and goaty with plenty of mineral flavor. The name references the penicillium candidum and geotrichum candidum that form the bloomy rind (as well as a Voltaire novel).

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized goat’s milk aged about 2 weeks

What’s the Type?

• bloomy

Where in the world?

• Prodigal Farm in Rougemont, North Carolina

Prodigal Farm makes truly incredible cheeses- from soft and bloomy to semi-hard to blue, we've never met a cheese made there that we didn't completely love. Everything they do focuses on raising happy and healthy goats and you can really taste this in their cheeses. Feast on 3 completely different styles and have fun comparing and contrasting individual cheeses while tasting the common thread of thoughtful animal husbandry and cheesemaking.

This fluffy 1/2 lb wheel of bloomy goodness is the perfect balance between herbed, spiced, warming, and lactic. The fluffy, mottled rind is dotted with woodland herbs while the paste retains its smooth and creamy white color.

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized goat’s milk aged 1 month

What’s the Type?

• bloomy

Where in the world?

• Prodigal Farm in Rougemont, North Carolina

This fresh cow's milk cheese is perfect for topping salads or spreading on bread. Each tub contains ¼ lb and tastes like a lactic whipped butter. Think chèvre- but with cows.

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow's milk with no age

What’s the Type?

• fresh

Where in the world?

• Prodigal Farm in Rougemont, North Carolina

These luscious and pudgy wheels are milky and buttery with a sweet paste and a spreadable texture. The little darlings have been brine washed for 2 weeks during aging and the rind develops just a bit of delicate geotrichum dusting.

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow's milk aged about 3 weeks

What’s the Type?

• washed

Where in the world?

• Prodigal Farm in Rougemont, North Carolina