Sweet Grass Dairy Farm Tour

Atlanta Chefs Tour Sweet Grass Dairy

The Atlanta Chapter of the American Culinary Federation and (Holly Elmore with The Green Foodservice Alliance, a Division of the Georgia Restaurant Association) took Atlanta Chefs to Sweet Grass Dairy on Monday, May 4. Some of the chefs include: Kevin Rathbun, Carvel Grant Gould, Ashley Epting, Jeffrey Gardner, Robert Gerstenecker and many more. Atlanta Chefs bonded over cheese making, lunch and a farm tour.

Sweet Grass Dairy is a 140-acre family farm in southern Georgia. Jeremy and Jessica Little work hard to make award-winning cheeses - made from the milk of their own goats and Jersey Cows. They are a sustainable, rotational grazing style working dairy that make their cheeses the natural, old-world style without the use of preservatives, additives, hormones, or antibiotics.





















We had a wonderful lunch at Sweet Grass Dairy made by Chefs David & Ryanne Carrier. Roy at Thompson Farm provided a Pork Shoulder for the lunch and Herman Holley with Turkey Hill Farm provided the vegetables. The cheese was delicious! Their handcraft and fresh cheese is unique in flavor and taste. It is hard to find such wonderful fresh local cheese in GA. Sweet Grass Dairy is making outstanding cheese that we should all support. It is important to support local farmers and buy local! Trust me- the flavor and quality is much better.

Some of the cheese I recommend are:

Goat Milk Cheeses

Fresh Chèvre--fresh goat's milk cheese with a tangy and grassy flavor.

Georgia Pecan Chèvre--soft-ripened goat milk pyramid coated in ground pecans and a white, bloomy rind.

Cow's Milk Cheeses

Green Hill--double-cream, soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a white, bloomy rind. Very smooth texture and sweet, rich flavor.

Thomasville Tomme--raw aged cow's milk cheese made in the style of a French mountain cheese. One of only ten cheeses chosen by Slow Foods, USA to represent American raw milk cheese.