Our Farm
Cherry Grove Farm is located in Lawrenceville, NJ just south of Princeton.
We are a self sustaining, diversified farm that strives to produce quality cheese while respecting our animals and the environment. This ultimately benefits our customers by offering them healthier, locally produced food made without “factory farming” environmental impact.
230 acres of our 480 acre farm is certified organic pasture. This is where our herd of Jersey Dairy Cattle enjoy a lush variety of grasses. We practice rotational grass grazing giving the cows a constant supply of fresh grass. The cows come inside twice a day to be milked but otherwise spend all their time outside at pasture.
Raw milk from grass-fed cows gives our Cheese Maker and General Manager Kelly Harding a fantastic starting material for his craft. The cows mow the grass and fertilize it, too! This saves fuel and eliminates the need for chemical fertilizers. Kelly produces a wide variety of cheeses ranging from fresh cheese like our Buttercup Brie to an 8 month aged Asiago.
Cheese is made Artisanally in small batches allowing Kelly to maintain high standards of quality. All the whey from our cheese facility sustains a population of Certified Berkshire Pigs. Whey is full of protein and makes great pork! Our pigs roam free in the woods in the center of our property and we use no growth hormones, antibiotics or steroids.
All our pork products have no nitrates or preservatives, even the smoked meats like bacon and ham. We have 1,000 Free Range Chickens for eggs who also enjoy free run of certified organic pasture. We grass feed Lambs and Hereford Cows for meat supplying our farm store with a nice variety of products.
All the heat and hot water for the store, the cheese facility and even Kelly’s house is generated by a wood fired heat exchanger. We allow local tree surgeons to dump wood on the property that they would normally pay to landfill. We use it to fire the furnace saving us and the tree surgeons money.
We strive to move towards self sustaining practices like this in everything we do.
