Working Dairy/Meat Barns & Farms

I’m sure there are more than this list I’ve gathered. Drop me a line if you know of any other licensed Connecticut cheesemakers, working dairy barns, and/or petting zoo type things.

If you’re looking specifically for farms that make great ice cream, you may have better luck here.

Damian pointing the way at UCONN’s dairy barns

Connecticut Cheese Trail

There currently is no Connecticut Cheese Trail. So I made it up. In my very amateur opinion, our cheeses are better than our wines, and we do have a CT Wine Trail. Below are my visits to the cheesemakers around that state of which I’m aware.

Note: These places (and my write-ups) are often about more than just the cheese.

Juustoleipa Cheese at UConn Dairy Bar, Storrs, 7/17/2009
Animals, Farmer Cheese, Milk and Ice Cream at Fish Family Farm, Bolton, 8/7/2009
Cheese at Cato Corner Farm, Colchester, 8/15/2009
Beaver Brook Farms, Lyme, 8/24/2009
Goats and Food at Bush Meadow Farm, Union, 11/7/2009
Horses and bleu cheese at Rustling Wind Creamery, Falls Village, 11/29/2009
Goats and their cheese at Beltane Farm, Lebanon, 5/16/2010

To Be Visited:

SweetPea Cheese, North Granby
Griffin Farmstand Dairy, East Granby
Deerfield Farm, Durham
M&K Dairy Ladies Of Levita Road, Lebanon
Liuzzi Cheese, North Haven
Woodbridge Farm, Salem
Foxfire Farm, Mansfield Center
Meadowstone Farms, Brooklyn
Monastic Art Shop, Bethlehem
New Pond Farm, West Redding
Creamery Brook Bison
Smyth’s Trinity Farm, Enfield
Mountain Dairy, Mansfield
Purity Farms, Plainfield (with a museum-to-be?)

Bush Meadow Farm, Union

Other Farms Worth Visiting

These joints offer tours or petting zoos or other such ways to spend a fun farm day.

Visits
Flamig Farm, 6/22/2008
Auer 4-H Farm, Bloomfield, 8/8/2009
Silverman’s Farm, Easton, 4/10/2010
Cushman Farms, Franklin, 8/7/2010 (Farmer’s Cow Farm)

To Visit
High Wire Deer and Animal Farm, Woodbury – Closed?
Bakerwoods Farm, Ashford
Fairvue Farms, Woodstock (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Hytone Farm, Coventry (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Mapleleaf Farm, Hebron (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Graywall Farms, Lebanon (Farmer’s Cow Farm)
Fort Hill Farms, Thompson (Farmer’s Cow Farm)