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Follow milk into cheese and butter

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A sequence from milk and cream through yogurt, coagulation, and named cheeses, using North Bay dairies as geography not a shopping list.

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Straus Family Creamery

FAO's four stages — coagulate, drain, salt, ripen — still apply after yogurt and butter ¹. For the longer cheese lesson use Understand cheese. North Bay neighbors: Bellwether Farms, Marin French Cheese Co., Vella Cheese Company. Cultured cream as butter: Cultured butter. Goat's milk as a different casein: Goat cheese.

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Small-Scale Dairy Farming Manual — Technology Unit 10.3 Small Scale Cheese Making — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — Technical notes on coagulation (acid vs enzyme), casein vs whey proteins, syneresis after cutting, salting, and ripening. Training-course material, not a U.S. safety regulation.

Updated 2026-08-26. gg:pathway:learn-dairy · CC BY 4.0

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