Sample Cabot 2025 1st Place Winners
2025-09-06 - 2025-09-14
It’s been a stellar 2025 for Cabot Creamery Cooperative at the United Stated Championship Cheese Contest and the American Cheese Society Competition with 14 First Place finishes for cheese, butter & cultured products! Come to either of our stores to sample some of the 31, combined, award winners.
On most days, we also will be hosting another Vermont cheesemaker and/or a specialty food/drink producer for sampling (e.g., Parish Hill Creamery, Bridport Creamery, Billings Farm, Barn First Creamery).
Featuring two different locations – be sure to review hours and addresses!
Cabot Creamery Store (all week)
Waterbury Annex
2657 Waterbury-Stowe Road
Waterbury Center, VT
802-244-6334
Tuesday thru Sunday, 10:30am – 5pm; closed Mondays
Click for More Location Information
Cabot at the Yellow Barn Store
323 VT-15
Hardwick, VT
802-472-7523
Wednesday thru Sunday, 10am-5pm; closed Mon-Tues
Click for More Location Information

Creamery Tour and Tasting with a Cheesemaker
2025-09-09 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Spring Brook Farm Cheese, 706 Caper Hill Rd, Reading, VT, 05062
About the EventSpring Brook Farm Cheese invites you for a guided tour of their creamery and aging room! Hosted by one of their cheese makers, this is an intimate look behind the scenes to learn about how Alpine style cheeses are made and aged. And of course, there will be a cheese tasting!
Get TicketsAbout the MakerCheese Council Insider Note: Spring Brook Farm’s three cheeses are truly award winning, with 75+ awards between them (!)
Make a Day of It: Spring Brook Farm is…

20 minutes from Billings Farm & Museum in the Woodstock area
30 minutes from the historic Plymouth Cheese Factory in Plymouth (and Calvin Coolidge Historical Site!)
30 minutes from Harpoon Brewery and Simon Pearce Glassblowing in Windsor
A hop, skip, and a jump from the self-serve farm stands of Fat Sheep Farm or Good Hands Creamery

Tell Us About the Cheese!: Spring Brook has been making cheese since 2007, when we made our first batch of Tarentaise, an alpine-style cheese, using cheesemaking methods that are traditional to the Beaufort Region of France.
In the following years, we developed Reading, our raclette-style cheese, and Ashbrook, our ode to the French Morbier. We knew from the beginning that the key to making great cheese was great milk. Most of our milk comes from Spring Brook Farm, a traditional dairy farm that covers 1,000 acres and maintains a herd of 100 registered Jerseys. Spring Brook Farm is an educational farm, home to the Farms for City Kids Foundation, and the cows are closely monitored, loved and cared for. We also partner with other small family dairy farm in our region.
Mission Statement: Our purpose is to build and support a community that embraces the land that sustains us, from our unique microbial environment to the Jersey cows that provide the highest quality milk to produce some of the most delicious, award-winning raw milk cheeses in America. Understanding that with each cheese we make, we carry the reputation of raw milk cheeses and Vermont cheeses with them. Our goal is to continue to produce safe, complex French alpine styles of cheeses. We strive to fulfill this responsibility with authenticity and transparency, and to continue to support the small scale Vermont dairy.
Get TIckets

Cheese Week Flavorfest with Barr Hill
2025-09-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Barr Hill Distillery, 116 Gin Lane, Montpelier, 05602, United States
Join Barr Hill to celebrate Vermont Cheese Week! Friends from CS Citrus and Traeger Smokers will be joining us for a unique and delicious celebration of smoke, cheese and cocktails. We’ll be smoking and sampling cheeses from Jasper Hill, Mt Mansfield Creamery and Spring Brook Farm, along with smoking honey and honeycomb and seasonal fruits to pair.
Just RSVP so we have plenty for everyone to sample, there is no cost to attend. Cocktails by purchase at our distillery bar, for 21+ only.
Click to RSVPMake a Day of ItSnacks & Supplies: Visit some of our favorite cheese cases at Hunger Mountain Coop (Montpelier), Roots Market (Middlesex), and Woodstock Farmers Market (Waterbury Center).
Nearby Lodging Partners: Brass Lantern Inn (Stowe), Liberty Hill Farm (Rochester), Old Stagecoach Inn (Waterbury)
Like a Vermonter: Travel & Leisure named Montpelier one of the best small towns for art for a reason: it’s tucked in all over town. But if you want to go a little further afield, small-but-mighty Middlesex, Vermont is 13 minutes down the road. Think breakfast at Red Hen Bakery (see if the Creemee window is open!), Wine & Beer at The Local, and tacos at Chicos! Or head over to Waterbury (17 minutes) for incredible dining at Hen of the Wood, beers at Prohibition Pig Brewery, stories and stationery at Bridgeside Books, and coffee + art at Stowe Street Cafe.

Meet a Cheesemaker at Woodstock Farmers Market
2025-09-13 12:00 - 16:00 | Woodstock Farmers Market, 979 W Woodstock Road, Woodstock, VT, 05091
The Woodstock Farmers Market is proud to host some of our closest local cheese makers to sample their cheeses this fall to help us celebrate Vermont Cheese Week:
Plymouth Artisan Cheese – (Plymouth,, VT) – Plymouth Artisan Cheese is a family-run business from Jesse and Sarit Werner, who still make their cheese from the 1890 Vermont recipe today. Their raw-milk cheese single-sourced from a dedicated herd of Holstein and Jersey cows. When each block of cheddar is ready, it is dipped in hot wax which is the way Plymouth Cheese has been packaged for 130 years. Their cheese include both traditional cheddars, as well as newer flavors like black truffle, harissa, and hot pepper!
Cobb Hill Cheese – (Hartland, VT) – Cobb Hill has been handcrafting artisan cheeses since 2000, including an award-winning Ascutney Mountain Cheese, a smoked farmhouse Gouda, a caraway-infused Alphine, and more. Their milk comes from Cedar Mountain Farm’s jersey cows, which impart a delicious, nutty flavor, and like many Vermont makers, they follow the age-old process of hand-stirring the curd, hooping, and pressing the cheese.
This event will be held outside in front of our Woodstock location in beautiful Vermont weather! (If the weather is not-so-friendly, inside space will be considered.)
For more information, contact: courtney.p@woodstockfarmersmarket.com or 1-802-457-3658, ext 1.
Pro-Tips and Don’t Misses!: The small Woodstock / Windsor / Plymouth triangle has a high concentration of cheesemakers in a small area — check our our Cheese Trail Map for farmstands, farmstays, and more in the area.
Historic Makers: Vermont cheesemakers have been at this a long time. In addition to Plymouth Artisan Cheese, Southwest Vermont also boasts many other century-old cheese sites and identities, including Billings Farm & Museum (1869), Crowley Cheese Company (1824), and Grafton Village Cheese (1892).
