Visiting cheese makers in the North Carolina mountains can be a great day trip. Mix in some breweries, vineyards and leaf-peeping, and you can make it a weekend.
It’s easier than ever: Farmsteads and artisan cheese producers formed a co-op to promote their fare by creating the Western North Carolina Cheese Trail, featuring stops from Robbinsville to Lenoir.
Here’s a look at five of them.
1. English Farmstead Cheese, Marion
Susan and Terry English are the fourth generation to own and run this dairy, but the first to make cheese. Terry does the milking and brings it, still warm from the cows, to Susan to begin the cheesemaking process.
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