Crowley Cheese Marks New Owners’ First Anniversary with the Release of Crowley Fresh Chive

Crowley Fresh Chive is available in 2.5 lb wheels in limited release. We made a few wheels of this cheese for friends and family during this past holiday season, and everyone agreed that it was delicious. We made another batch earlier this spring and released it just in time for the recent Vermont Cheesemakers’ Festival, where it was a big hit. It is quite different from our popular Garlic Chive in that it contains fresh local chives with no garlic and has a much subtler, more complex, elegant flavor, reminiscent of that great English classic, Double Gloucester with Chive. Order Crowley Fresh Chive.

Award-Winning Crowley Cheese

Award-winning Crowley Cheese has been made in the Green Mountains of Vermont from the same recipe, in the same manner, since 1824. Hand-made the old-fashioned way, it’s cheese the way it used to be -- all natural, with no additives or preservatives. Pure, simple, delicious: cheese that everyone will love.

All-natural Crowley Cheese is made by hand from fresh, whole, unpasteurized milk without additives or preservatives. Our milk comes from cows certified BST and BGH free.

It's a Cheddar, It's a Colby ... No, It's a Crowley!

With a distinctively smooth, creamy texture, Crowley Cheese is often compared to a cheddar "without the bite." The Food & Drug Administration classifies cheeses according to various characteristics including how they are made, their consistency, and how they are ripened. Crowley was made long before these categories were created. When it came time to classify Crowley, the FDA chose Colby, but Crowley bears little resemblance to its orange cousin from Wisconsin.

America's First Cheese

Crowley Cheese is one of a very small number of genuine American cheeses. Very few cheeses originated in the United States; most came to this country with the various immigrant groups who settled here. Crowley Cheese began in the Crowleys' kitchen in 1824. The Crowley Cheese Factory, built by Winfield Crowley in 1882, is the oldest cheese factory in America. Visit us and see how cheese used to be made -- and still is today -- at our historic cheese factory in picturesque Healdville, Vermont.