Farm
Samish Bay Cheese
A certified-organic dairy on roughly 200 acres in northwestern Skagit County, Washington, milking a mixed herd that is mostly Milking Shorthorns — a heritage breed less common in modern commercial dairy. Operates an on-farm creamery turning the milk into a line of cheeses sold direct on the farm, at regional farmers markets, online, and through a growing list of retail outlets.
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What they do
Samish Bay Cheese is a certified-organic dairy on about 200 acres at the northern end of Skagit County, Washington, on Bow Hill Road overlooking Samish Bay. The herd is “mixed, mostly Milking Shorthorns” — a heritage dairy breed that fell out of fashion when industrial dairy consolidated around Holsteins, and which a small number of pasture-based operations have been keeping alive. The farm operates an on-farm creamery making cheese, and sells through multiple direct channels: “Our products are available here on [[our-farm|our farm]], at a few farmers markets, and at a growing number of retail stores.”
Why it’s listed
Three directory-aligned filters layer here: [[organic-agriculture|certified organic]], heritage breed (Milking Shorthorns specifically — a genetic-conservation choice), and on-farm creamery. Heritage-breed dairy is the rarest of those three in [[directory|the directory]]; most pasture dairies use Jersey or Guernsey crosses. Keeping a less-common breed milking commercially is the same kind of genetic stewardship orchards do with heirloom apple varieties — both keep diversity alive in agricultural genetics that the wholesale food system has flattened.
See also
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- Instance of: [[dairy]]
- Shares approach with: [[regenerative-agriculture]]
- Member of: [[farm]]
- Contained by: [[puget-sound]]
- Also grows: [[livestock-farm]]
Sources
- OpenStreetMap:
way/307610728 - Samish Bay Cheese
A listing in the [[0mn1one|0mn1.one]] [[directory]]. Filed under [[puget-sound]] in [[directory|the directory]].
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