AIRVIEW — The ancient art of cheese-making forces Jennifer Perkins to meet the challenges of both agriculture and running a small business.
“I always wanted to be involved in agriculture, and I started out when my husband was doing an internship in Richmond,” Perkins said. “So, I thought, ‘I didn't want to do horses, cows were too big, I didn't want to do meat and I don't have a green thumb, so that whittles it down to dairy.'”
Perkins started Looking Glass Creamery with her husband Andy in 2009. The farm specializes in small-batch handmade cheese from both goat and cow milk. The farm employs one full-time and one part-time worker. The creamery is not a farmstead operation, but instead buys its milk from local, family-owned goat and cow dairies.
As the first nonfarmstead creamery in WNC, Perkins said starting the operation was challenging initially, but eventually became successful.
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