Cato Corner Farm, featured in Connecticut Farmer & Feast

  

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Cato Corner Farm is a featured farmer in Connecticut Farmer & Feast, a revolutionary new cookbook by Emily Brooks.

Cato Corner Farm is a small family farm in Colchester, Connecticut, where the mother-son team of Elizabeth and Mark raises 40 free-range Jersey cows without the use of hormones or subtherapeutic antibiotics. 

From our cows' raw milk, we hand make a dozen styles of aged farmhouse cheese ranging from mild and milky to runny and pungent to sharp and firm. 

Cato Corner Farm, LLC, is a mother-son partnership. Elizabeth MacAlister has owned the farm for more than 30 years. She began milking cows and making cheese in 1997 as a way to keep her farm sustainable. 

To get started, she took a technical course in cheese making at California Polytechnic University and a workshop with a Belgian cheese master, and then she began experimenting. 

Her son Mark Gillman left his job as a 7th grade English teacher to join her in 1999. Mark learned from Elizabeth as well as from several additional workshops (and more experimentation!). 

Nowadays, Mark makes most of the cheese and oversees its aging, while Elizabeth manages the farm operations including milking and caring for the cows. The rest of the Cato Corner family includes several full time and part time workers and a pair of diligent and attentive border collies named Flute and Harp. 

Recognition & Awards

Dairyere won 3rd Place in its class at the prestigious American Cheese Society Awards, 2010.

Our Black Ledge Blue, Bridgid's Abbey, and Bloomsday took all three prizes in the CT Specialty Food Awards Dairy Category, 2010.

The farm was selected as the winner of the Gallo Family Vineyards "Never Stop Growing Award"
for Outstanding Family-Owned Artisanal Food Production, April 2006

Our Hooligan was selected as the winner of the Gallo Family Vineyards Gold Medal Awards,
Outstanding Dairy Product, April 2006

Selected as one of America's Top Cheeses by Saveur Magazine in April 2005

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