Winter Conference 2025

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Registration is open for the Vermont Cheese Council’s 2025 Artisan Cheesemakers Winter Conference! This year’s virtual conference focuses on two deep-dive topics, each spanning a virtual half-day with specific experts:

🧀 Descriptive Sensory Analysis with Roy Desrochers

🧀 Art of Affinage with Eric Meredith

While content is curated by cheesemakers for cheesemakers, VCC loves to see all our monger, retailer, distributor, and industry friends who attend every year too!

➡️ Registration is $115 for both days, or $70 for a single day pass

➡️ Visit us at vtcheese.com/conference for more information.

🎟️ Discounts available for Cheese Guild and Council Members: Reach out to your leadership for your promo code, or to education@vtcheese.com

#acwc2025 #vermontcheese #artisancheese #cheesemaking #fortheloveofcheese #cheeseplease #cheeseeducation #cheesemakers #cheesemongers

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Registration is open for the Vermont Cheese Council’s 2025 Artisan Cheesemakers Winter Conference! This year’s virtual conference focuses on two deep-dive topics, each spanning a virtual half-day with specific experts:

🧀 Descriptive Sensory Analysis with Roy Desrochers, including sensory training, innovative consumer testing methods, Flavor Leadership Criteria, and the latest UVM Extension research on artisan cheese sensory quality.

🧀 Art of Affinage with Eric Meredith, including technical considerations for managing the aging process, common affinage-related defects and shoestring fixes for them, and affinage specification for continuous improvement.

While content is curated by cheesemakers for cheesemakers, VCC loves to see all our monger, retailer, distributor, and industry friends who attend every year too!

➡️ Registration is $115 for both days, or $70 for a single day pass

➡️ Visit us at vtcheese.com/conference for more information.

➡️ Contact education@vtcheese.com with questions.

🎟️ Discounts: VCC and Guild Members in California, Maine, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin all receive 20% off! Reach out to your leadership for your promo code, or to education@vtcheese.com with proof of your guild membership!

#acwc2025 #vermontcheese #artisancheese #cheesemaking #fortheloveofcheese #cheeseplease #cheeseeducation #cheesemakers #cheesemongers

Business Miniversity 2025

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Registration is open for the Vermont Cheese Council’s 2025 Business Miniversity Series! This year’s series includes nine weekly 90-minute sessions hitting on leadership, management, finances and margins, strategy, marketing, and more! Walk away with actionable information about managing a team or running a business. Group size is small, with conversation and Q&As in every session.

🎥 All sessions are virtual and recorded for later watching (for a limited time).

📅 Sessions are scheduled on Wednesdays from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET over 9 weeks, March 5 – April 30, 2025.

🎟️Registration is $100, with discounts available for Cheese Guild and Council members including CA, ME, MN, NY, OH, OR, PA, WA, and WI! Reach out to your leadership or education@vtcheese.com for your promo code.

➡️ Visit us at vtcheese.com/bmini for the complete course syllabus and registration.

#bmini2025 #vermontcheese #cheeseknowledge #smallbusiness #specialtyfood #leadershipdevelopment #teambuilding #foodhub #cheeseshop

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Registration is open for the Vermont Cheese Council’s 2025 Business Miniversity Series! This year’s series includes nine weekly 90-minute sessions hitting on leadership, management, finances and margins, strategy, marketing, and more! Walk away with actionable information about managing a team or running a business. Group size is small, with conversation and Q&As in every session:

⭐ Attract, Engage, Retain: Making Every Hire Count (Grant Prenzlow, Wholestone Farms)

⭐ Understanding Financial Statements and Key Metrics (Elisa Clancy, UVM Extension)

⭐ Quality & Culture: Simple Leadership Practices for Team Success (Amy Beth Kessinger, Community College of Vermont)

⭐ Fundamentals of Grant Writing (Rose Wilson, Rose Wilson Consulting)

⭐ Branding: Selling Your Product Through Story (Daniel Prial, Prial Outreach Consulting Branding)

⭐ Tools for Strategic Business Planning (Elisa Clancy, UVM Extension)

⭐ Specialty Food Websites: Optimizing the User Experience…and Yours! (Ashley Sandy, LONDONmiddlebury)

⭐ Managing and Calculating Margins through a Specialty Supply Chain (Zoe Brickley, Jasper Hill Farm)

⭐ Beyond the Label: Discover 6 Ways to Craft Packaging That Sells (Steve Crafts & Michael Adams, Place Creative)

🎥 All sessions are virtual and recorded for later watching (for a limited time).

📅 Sessions are scheduled on Wednesdays from 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET over 9 weeks, March 5 – April 30, 2025.

🎟️Registration is $100, with discounts available for Cheese Guild and Council members including CA, ME, MN, NY, OH, OR, PA, WA, and WI! Reach out to your leadership or education@vtcheese.com for your promo code.

➡️ Visit us at vtcheese.com/bmini for more information.

#bmini2025 #vermontcheese #cheeseknowledge #smallbusiness #specialtyfood #leadershipdevelopment #teambuilding #foodhub #cheeseshop