Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and Janet King have quietly created a broad series of supreme ewe and also cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.

Kingsmeade started out making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their very own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain and lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep are big, contented and also packed with individuality-- no need to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice and come on their very own.

After years of hands on care, meticulous records and genetic studies, Miles' flock has actually turned into New Zealand's initial registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.

Today, Kingsmeade makes nine different varieties of cheese, a lot of from ewe's milk and some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, ranging from aged hard varieties to deliciously creamy.

Tranquility as well as silently spoken, Miles is hands-on from the very first steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the daily milking, cheesemaking, cutting and packaging. Each batch of cheese is hand made in the factory on the farm, best beside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders around New Zealand.