Since 1998, artisan cheese makers Miles and Janet King have actually quietly created a broad series of supreme ewe and also cow's milk cheeses on their idyllic 30-acre farm on the outskirts of Masterton, New Zealand.

Kingsmeade started making ewe's milk cheeses with milk from their very own flock of East Friesian sheep. Clover, chicory, plantain as well as lucerne cover broad, green meadows. The sheep are big, contented and also filled with individuality-- no need to round them up at milking time, they hear Miles' voice and also come on their very own.

After years of hands on care, meticulous records and genetic studies, Miles' flock has become New Zealand's very first registered sheep milking breed - Dairymeade.

Today, Kingsmeade makes nine different varieties of cheese, most from ewe's milk and also some from cow's. All are uniquely hand crafted, ranging from aged hard varieties to deliciously creamy.

Tranquility and also silently spoken, Miles is hands-on from the initial steamy breath of the newborn lambs to the day-to-day milking, cheesemaking, cutting and packaging. Each set of cheese is hand made in the factory on the farm, right alongside the family home. Janet runs the distribution, cheerfully dispatching orders all over New Zealand.