Kate grew up in western Maine where her first job was working on a small berry and vegetable farm. She left her home state to go to college at the University of Vermont where she studied Ecological Agriculture. During college she started working at Shelburne Farms, first hired to transport the milk from the dairy to the creamery, and eventually started making cheese. Over the next seventeen years Kate made cheese for a number of farmstead cheese operations throughout Vermont. Most recently she and her husband had their own small herd of Jersey cows and turned all of that milk into cheese. Kate moved back to her hometown in Maine in the fall of 2023 and is thrilled to be working at Wolfe’s Neck Center supporting the New England Grazing Network and the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship program. Outside of work, Kate enjoys spending time with her husband and two children at their little hill farm in Wilton.
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