Marin French Cheese Co.

Marin French Cheese Co. is a ranch creamery in the North Bay dairy belt. The visit page lists 7510 Pt. Reyes - Petaluma Rd, Petaluma, CA 94952 ¹. The company’s story page dates Jefferson Thompson’s dairy ranch and “Breakfast Cheese” to 1865, and treats the make as Marin County cheesemaking — including a 1926 claim that Marin led California cheese production largely because of this creamery ². Those production-rank sentences are the company’s history, not an independent agricultural census.

The company calls itself “the country’s oldest cheese company.” Soft-ripened styles such as Brie, Camembert, and Breakfast Cheese are bloomy-rind problems involving milk, culture, humidity, and time. That craft is Cheese and Affinage; the raw material is Milk. Neighboring Marin and Sonoma dairy nodes are Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company and Cowgirl Creamery.