Shepherd's Way Farms

08/28/2026

Pasture walk, checking on the native prairie pasture plantings. This little partridge pea is doing well despite the incredibly dry summer.

After the controlled burn this spring, we planted three different pasture mixes to see which does the best. The sheep will vote by grazing patterns.

08/27/2026

Want to be a Cheese Insider with special access to our farmstead sheep cheeses each month?

Our Cheese CSA is a once-a-month selection of our most popular cheeses, the hard to find cheeses and some exclusive cheeses and spreads.

I also include notes about the cheeses and the farm, and recipes!

Pick up locations in Minnneapolis, St Paul, Northfield and Rochester! (Wise Acre, Golden Fig, Shepherds Table, Imminent Brewing, Great Harvest, Mill City Farmers Markey and St Paul Farmers Market)

Our cheese CSA members are an important part of the farm, helping support local food, artisan cheesemaking and keeping this little farm rolling!

Sign up any time for 6 months or 1 year! Details on our website www.shepherdswayfarms.com and link in bio.

08/14/2026

Abundant tomatoes need cheese!

Shepherd's Hope for an updated caprese salad, Hidden Falls in a funky BLT, melted Friesago on a tomato tart, or Sogn crumbled into a white bean and tomayo salad.

Find us at the Markets this weekend for sheep cheeses, fresh bottled sheep milk, & skyr!

07/25/2026

What is this? And where can you get it?!

Loukanika Lamb Salami, made special for Shepherd's Way Farms by Lowry Hill Provisions!

Find it only at St Paul Farmers Market Saturday & Sundays. Until it is gone!

07/17/2026

Summer supper! Shepherd's Hope to the rescue. Fresh, bright and easy.

Find Shepherd's Hope and our ACS Award Winners Friesago and Sogn along with all our cheeses at the markets this weekend. We'll also have Big Woods Blue lamb brats & a wide range of lamb, skyr, and bottled sheep milk.

We'll be at Mill City Farmers Market, St Paul Farmers Market, Apple Valley Farmers Market, Southwest Farmers Market on Saturday and St Paul on Sunday too!

07/15/2026

Looking for part-time dairy farm work? Have experience milking or tending sheep? We'd love to hear from you!

Our family-run sheep dairy depends on a small, dedicated crew to milk twice a day, ensure a clean, sanitary milking environment, care for the sheep, and keep up with routine farm chores.

We have weekday Mon, Tues, Weds AM shifts, fill-in PM shifts and weekend shifts available. Competitive pay. And it includes cheese!

Learn more & apply on our website! www.shepherdswayfarms.com/employment

We are a small family-based farm business with a small crew of folks who are committed to caring for the land, animals and to creating wholesome good food.  If you enjoy hard work with a purpose, love local foods, and think free cheese is an awesome perk, this may be the place for you! 

07/13/2026

Sogn's portrait was left off the last post so here it is! Sogn gets a moment of its own.

Sogn won a bronze this year in the sheep milk cheese aged 31-60 days category. A fourth win in a row for Sogn.

I love making this cheese! Designed to show off the beautiful molds in our environment, it is a tomme style made with milk from our ewes. I make this one in our small vat, 25-30 wheels at a time.

Sogn is named after a gorgeous nearby valley that is abundant with color every fall. (Pronounced "sew gun" around here, even though that is not the original Norwegian pronunciation)

07/11/2026

I missed being with cheese friends at American Cheese Society conference last week! But, we were there in cheese!

Both Friesago and Sogn earned medals!
Friesago placed first in farmstead sheep milk cheese aged more than 60 days.

Friesago is our flagship cheese, first made in 1998. It has evolved over the years, from a waxed cheese to the natural rinded cheese we have today. And I still make every wheel.

Sogn placed third in sheep milk cheese aged 31-60 days. Sogn is an original recipe and my most recent cheese. This is it's fourth win in a row.

We've been doing this for quite awhile now and it is still just as exciting and humbling to receive an ACS award. Congratulations to all and thank you for your hard work & creativity. I love being part of this cheese world!

06/27/2026

We brought it all to the markets today!

Sheep cheeses for your summer supper -- Hidden Falls (pictured), last batch of Morcella, Shepherd's Hope for tomato salads, Friesago, Sogn, Big Woods Blue, Burr Oak;
Lamb kebab meat & more for grilling;
Skyr for berries beeakfast;
fresh bottled sheep milk for coffee & smoothies!

We're here until 1pm and back at St Paul Farmers Market on Sunday!

06/24/2026

Shepherd's Hope farmstead sheep milk fresh cheese! Nothing else quite like it - fresh and clean, creamy but in a wheel, showing off the sheep milk buttery light flavors.

In a salad, melted on pizza, paired with tomatoes! Use it in place of fresh mozzarella or feta when you want something new.

Every wheel made by hand, with milk from our ewes, on our farm.