Summer Field Alpine

Botton Village Community (a Camphill Village Trust) makes a range of traditional farmhouse cheeses using full-flavoured, quality milk collected from the community’s 46 Dairy Shorthorn cows (a traditional Craven breed known for the superb quality of their milk).

Alastair Pearson developed theses cheeses as a local lad who used to work at Botton before he travelled to Germany to learn his cheese-making trade.  It was there he learnt about Berg Kase – mountain cheeses made in Germany.  Using this knowledge, and the Dairy Shorthorn’s rich, yellow milk, Alastair makes Summerfield, this Alpine-style cheese.  Gruyère and Alpine-style cheeses are notoriously difficult to make and cannot be made from silage-fed animals (for technical reasons), so whereas Botton’s Dale End Cheddar can be, and is, made all year round, Summer Field is only made when the cows are out at pasture and thus in very limited supply.  This pasture-grazing gives the cheese its name – Summer Field.

Nowadays Summer Field is made by the Botton Village team.

Botton is one of the Camphill Village Trust that exist as social enterprise for people with learning disabilities, mental health problems and other special needs.  The community has over 70 residents, is set in the wild and beautiful North Yorkshire Moors, and is fully self-sustainable and biodynamic.  Each of the residents has a role – working on the farms, helping Alastair to make and age his cheese, or in other roles (such as the local store, wood workshops, making preserves and baking bread).

This product will have two weeks shelf life from the date of delivery.  Conveniently, at checkout you can choose a delivery date even well in the future if you would like your cheese delivering for a specific event.