Cheesemaking in Maine with Allison Lakin of Lakin's Gorges Cheese

Every cheesemaker needs a market for their product: a city where you can offer your wheels at farmers' markets, shops and restaurants that sell your products, distributors who truck them across the country. For Allison Lakin, cheesemaker and co-owner of Lakin's Gorges Cheese and East Forty Farm, running a small-scale creamery on the Maine coast means getting creative with how she reaches customers and markets her cheese. Stef and Sue talked with Allison about the challenges of selling and distributing cheese from the far northeast corner of the country, the ups and downs of running a scrappy little cheese business, her open and honest approach to social media, and how 2020 changed everything from her cheese offerings to her Cowside Supper events. 

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More on Allison: Lakin's Gorges Cheese / Instagram

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