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Campus & Buildings

Favorite Places On The Farm

We're excited to open for the 2025 season this weekend! To celebrate, we asked Shelburne Farms staff members to share their favorite places on our working farm campus.

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Cheddar
Food & Farming

Shelburne Farms 2023 Holiday Catalog

Take a sneak peek at our 2023 Holiday Catalog, in mailboxes soon! It showcases our cheddar and maple syrup, and the mission they support.

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Cheddar
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Beer Cheddar is Back!

A delicious Shelburne collaboration: our raw milk cheddar and Fiddlehead Brewing Company's flagship IPA.

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Cheddar

Shop Early for the Holidays this Year

Our cheddar and farm products offer something for everyone's holiday table and gift list! View our 2021 Holiday Catalog.

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Five Frequently Asked Questions at Meet a Cheesemaker

Head Cheesemaker Helen Cowan answers your top five questions that our cheesemakers are often asked during "Meet a Cheesemaker."

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Cheddar

Demystifying rennet, a key ingredient in cheesemaking

We all know the main ingredient in cheese is milk, but most cheeses also contain salt, cultures and rennet. Rennet is fascinating, yet it isn't well understood by most people.

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Food & Farming

A departing cheesemaker reflects back

Creamery Manager Maddy Born reflects back on how her work at the Farm has changed her life.

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Cheddar on and off the Farm

Here’s how our cheddar and Farm products are making their through our local food system (and beyond) to you.

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Cheesemaking at Shelburne Farms

What’s the story behind our raw milk, farmstead cheddar? The Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing visited to get a behind-the-scenes tour.

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Going "Green" in Cheesemaking

The cheese department recently signed on to be part of the "Vermont Green Dairy Cohort," a project of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation and Efficiency Vermont. We'll be tracking and improving the environmental footprint of our cheesemaking facility.

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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Shelburne Farms is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID #03-0229347)