Bellwether Farms

Bellwether Farms is a creamery node, not a shop listing. The producer’s site presents sheep-milk yogurt, A2 organic whole-milk yogurt from Jersey cows on neighboring Sonoma County farms, and whole-milk ricotta sold in its draining basket ¹. The footer places the company in Sonoma County, California ¹.

A producer article dates the family creamery to 1986, places the work on the Sonoma County coast around Petaluma, and describes yogurt and cheese made from full-fat sheep’s milk and cow’s milk ².

What to notice in the dairy case is whole milk versus a reconstituted low-fat base: sheep milk’s density, Jersey cream, and a ricotta that is still a drained curd. Culture and acid are Cheese cultures and Cheese; the raw material is Milk. Other Sonoma and Marin processors: Straus Family Creamery, Cowgirl Creamery.