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Calkins Creamery

Also known as: Calkins Creamery LLC

An artisan farmstead cheesemaker in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, producing aged cow's-milk cheeses on the Highland Farm dairy in Wayne County. The creamery makes cheese exclusively from the Highland Farm herd's own milk — a true farmstead operation rather than a creamery sourcing from multiple producers. Cheeses are sold direct, through regional retail, and at farmers markets in the bioregion's northern half. One of the bioregion's clearest cases of value-add agricultural processing keeping a multi-generation family dairy operating.

What they make

Aged cow’s-milk cheeses produced from the [[highland-farm|Highland Farm]] dairy herd’s milk. The creamery’s lineup includes raw and pasteurized aged styles, with rotation by season and aging schedule.

Sales channels:

  • Direct from creamery — visit-and-buy at the Honesdale operation
  • [[honesdale-farmers-market|Wayne County Farmers Market]] (Honesdale, May–October)
  • Regional retail — specialty grocers and cheesemongers across NEPA and beyond
  • Online and shipping through calkinscreamery.com

Why it matters

A farmstead designation requires that the cheese be made on the same farm that produces the milk — a higher bar than “artisan” or “small-batch,” and one that almost no creameries in the eastern U.S. clear at any meaningful scale. Calkins clears it. The operation is the textbook case of how a small dairy survives 21st-century commodity-milk economics: by capturing the value-add a few steps downstream and selling cheese directly, rather than selling milk into the wholesale pool.

For [[directory|the directory]]:

  • Bioregion’s flagship farmstead cheesemaker
  • Working test of the dairy-survival model — multi-generation farm staying in operation through value-add processing
  • Direct-sales relationship with the bioregion’s customers via farmers markets and retail

See also

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  • Located in: [[highland-farm]]
  • Member of: [[business]]
  • Contained by: [[poconos]]

Sources

  • Wayne County AgroLegacy producer directory
  • Calkins Creamery public materials (calkinscreamery.com)
  • [[honesdale-farmers-market|Wayne County Farmers Market]] vendor records

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Practical

shares approach with

  • Creamworks Creamery two Wayne County family creameries; Calkins focuses on aged cheese, Creamworks on fluid milk/butter/ice cream

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