Greensgrow cheese love.
The best part of the Greensgrow CSA, at least for me, is definitely the cheeses. I’m definitely a cheese fiend, but it’s also a delight to have the opportunity to try so many great local cheeses. There is an occasional dud, to be sure, but they are usually quite delicious. To date, they’ve served up:
- XX Sharp Cheddar, Le Rayesville Cheese Factory, Le Rayesville, PA
- Fresh Chevre Spreads, Shellbark Hollow Farm, West Chester, PA
- Cowtipper, Calkins Creamery, PA
- Herbal Jack - Lancaster Farm Fresh, Lancaster, PA
- Telford Tomme - Hendricks Farms, Lancaster, PA
The Cowtipper is a baby gouda soaked in Sierra Nevada pale ale for 48 hours. The Telford Tomme does not resemble any tomme I’ve ever seen before — maybe a CSA swap-out, and I wasn’t paying attention? — but it is delicious! It has the saltiness of a Parmigiano-Reggiano, but with more of the flavor of an aged cheddar. And who doesn’t love a little fresh chevre? (Actually, many of the men I know don’t care for goat cheeses at all, but I think they are very silly.)
Every week when I open their email, I go over the fruits with delight, the veggies with concern, and the meat with held breath (will this week be oysters, or ground bison?), but the cheese, I am always excited to try. Ok, not the pepper jack or the herbal jack or any other kind of jack you might have going. Did some shyster sell a jack culture to the cheese guys around here, and now they can’t root it out of their dairies?
