Gunn's Hill Artisan Cheese
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QUICK FACTS
Located:
Woodstock, ON
Established:
2011
Owned By:
Shep Ysselstein & Colleen Bator
Produces:
Swiss influenced small-batch cheeses
Season:
Year Round
Growing Practices:
Follow traditional cheese making methods using milk from neighbouring farm.
Producer Website:
About:
Gunn’s Hill is a small, artisanal dairy located in Woodstock. Shep Ysselstein crafts small-batch cheeses made with a marked Swiss influence. Shep’s family have been farming in the region since the 1950s.
Shep sources the milk for their line of cheeses from his family farm - Friesvale Farms. Some of their most popular cheese’s include Oxford’s Harvest, 5 Brothers, and Handeck (so named for the town in Switzerland where Shep studied cheesemaking!).