Farm
Jasper Hill Farm
A Vermont raw-milk cheesemaker in Greensboro, in the Northeast Kingdom — produces 14 distinct cheese varieties from their own herd and ages partner cheesemakers' cheeses in the 22,000-square-foot Cellars at Jasper Hill, paying partner farms approximately three times commodity-milk prices via the value-add of cheese and affinage.
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What they do
Jasper Hill milks their own herd in Greensboro, VT and produces fourteen distinct cheese varieties under their own label. Below the farm sits the Cellars at Jasper Hill — a 22,000-square-foot underground cave-aging system where cheeses undergo traditional affinage. The Cellars also receive young cheeses from partner Vermont cheesemakers; Jasper Hill ages them to maturity, sells them through the Cellars label, and routes revenue back to the partner farms — paying them roughly three times what commodity dairy markets pay.
Why it’s listed
The structural problem in dairy is that the farmer captures almost nothing of the consumer’s cheese-aisle dollar — the middle of the chain takes everything. Jasper Hill engineered around that. By insourcing the affinage step (the most value-creating part of the chain) and routing the upside back to partner farms, they re-anchor the economics of small Vermont dairies in their own region. That’s substrate work — the operation exists primarily to make it possible for other farms to keep operating.
Bioregional fit
Greensboro sits in the [[northeast-kingdom]] — the three northeasternmost counties of Vermont, where small-scale pasture-based dairy never gave way to industrial consolidation. Jasper Hill is part of why the regional cheese economy is still possible at all.
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- Instance of: [[cheese]]
- Shares approach with: [[organic-valley]]
- Member of: [[farm]]
- Contained by: [[northeast-kingdom]]
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