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Valley Shepherd Creamery, located in Morris County, NJ, handcrafts many raw milk cheeses and offers pasture fed lamb meat. Hundreds of dairy ewes are grazed on the 120 acre farm and their milk is processed daily into 15 different hard and soft cheeses offered at the farm, retail shops and many farmer markets.

Lamb meat is available September–March and can be purchased in frozen vacuum cuts or ordered custom cut in advance. Cheeses are aged in the 100 ft. underground aging cave in one of several specialty rooms available for public viewing during the fall tours. Guided tours of the creamery, offered seasonally, go into a viewing gallery overlooking milking and production areas, lambing building and more—check the website for days/times. The retail Sheep Shoppe is open year round for cheese tasting and purchases and carries dairy, meat, wool and hundreds of farm gift items. Many of the food products are also available at retail shops nationally and at several NY/NJ farmer markets. Check all information at web.

Farmers Markets: Wednesdays, Union Square, NYC; Thursdays, Nyack, NY; Fridays, Rockefeller Center, NYC; Saturdays, Abingdon Square, NYC, Inwood, NYC, Union Square, NYC, Bernardsville, NJ; Sunday, Lawrenceville, NJ, Morristown, NJ.