Date: Sunday, August 16
1 - 3:30 pm
Join us for a delightful Farm Tour and Cheese Reception at Harley Farms Goat Dairy!
The tour includes time in the pen with the very friendly milking herd, a visit to the milking parlor where you have the option to milk a goat, and a walk around the property with your guide who can discuss what it means to manage a working farm. After the tour, we'll enjoy a small reception with Harley Farms cheeses, cider or lavender lemonade (depending on the weather), and local bread. Of course, you should bring your knitting, crochet or any work-in-progress to keep you company while we relax.
Dee Harley launched Harley Farms in 1991, breathing life into a derelict cow dairy which was built in 1910 during San Mateo County’s rapid growth in the dairy industry. Today, Harley Farms is the only active dairy in San Mateo County after the last cow dairies were closed in the 1980s. Their operations began with six goats, milked by hand, producing a small amount of cheese sold at local farmers’ markets and retail stores across the San Francisco Bay Area.
Harley Farms is a small-scale farmstead goat dairy which produces goat cheese, exclusively using milk from their own goats and adhering to traditional cheesemaking methods. The bucolic farm and its historic buildings are located two miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, in the town of Pescadero, California. Its proximity to the ocean impacts the terroir of the goats’ pasture and contributes to the mild flavor of their cheese.