Milking and Cheese Making with Oliver

Cost 150PLN (convert to GBP, Euro) 4-6 hours over 3-4 days, day one Saturday, 2-3 participants, take home a 400g cheese.

Butla the cow lives with Piotr Romanowski, the president of the 'Republic of Reka Dzielo' on about 10ha of grazing land. Butla grew up with the dogs who always join us when Butla is milked.

Starting at 9am Oliver will introduce you to Butla the cow. Butla is milked twice a day at about 8am and 8pm. You will be one of a group of three on the workshop learning to milk Butla and then using your milk to make cheese at the end of the day. The day after you have made the basic cheese you can either take it to eat or leave it for smoking and collect it later.

Day one will be two sessions of about 1-2 hours each for milking. Day two about 1 hour to prepare the basic cheese. Day three collect the basic cheese and if you like, start the smoking process. Depending on the level of smoking the cheese will be ready by day four or five. After smoking we recommend you cut and bottle the cheese in herbs and olive oil.

At the end of the workshop you will take home a cheese weighing about 400g. We hope you will also be taking home some pictures of you at work along with some wonderful memories.

You can see Oliver's milking and cheese making workshop dates during July 2010 on the Green Hamlet Calendar