Philadelphia’s Grid Magazine is featuring our Full Nettle Jack as their cheese of the month! Grid is a free, monthly print publication focused on sustainability issues and initiatives in the Greater Philadelphia area. Here’s what they had to say about Full Nettle Jack :

“This bright-tasting cheese is both vegetal and herbaceous with a kick of vinegary acidity. The taste evokes dill pickles, and would do well as slices on a Cubano sandwich.”

 

Photo by Tenaya Darlington

“Steam nettles for 30 seconds, though, and those stingers soften. Boom: you’ve got a nutritious lunch, slightly bitter but reputedly calcium-packed. Perhaps that’s why cheesemakers delved into nettledom: to pair one calcium-rich treat with another. Makes me think that eating nettle cheese is probably a better preventative for osteoperosis than, oh, say…a multivitamin?

Full Nettle Jack (pictured) is made by Sam Kennedy over near Princeton, New Jersey. He’s the cheesemaker for Cherry Grove Farm, a sustainable dairy that supplies so many great wedges to the Philadelphia area. I’m a big fan of his rustic natural-rinded wheels, like this one (or his nutty Herdsman).”

Check out the full article in Grid Magazing here. Thank you, Grid, for the amazing write up!