Yellow Springs Farm's Cloud Nine Goat Cheese

It's full-on kidding season in Chester Springs, where precious little goats are being born every day to Catherine and Al Renzi's herd of Nubians at Yellow Springs Farm.

When it comes to prize season, though, Yellow Springs is no joke. Their Cloud Nine goat cheese just took home first prize at the Pennsylvania Farm Show for the second consecutive year.

This quarter-pound snowball of a cheese, hand-shaped instead of set into the usual geometric form ("We're artisans, I guess!" says Catherine), took the prize this year in the surface-ripened category.

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