Cheese Making with Ros Garstone

Cheese Making with Ros Garstone

Learn the joys of this ancient skill with fully trained and experienced local, Ros Garstone.

Group bookings with a minimum of 6 people can be made for any of the courses listed below. all are suitable for beginners and all include tastings of Ros’s home made cheeses.

Ros Garstone is a mother, dairy farmer, teacher and Home Economist, and has a passion for making cheese!  She regularly makes cheese at home and has completed several home and commercial cheesemaking courses in WA, Victoria and South Australia.    It was her desire to promote the dairy industry and to learn more about the art of cheesemaking that prompted her to start facilitating workshops, in cooperation with Cheeselinks, in Margaret River in 2006.

 Ros is was a recipient of the 2008 Dairy Australia Cheesemaker Scholarship which enabled her to learn from master cheesemakers across Australia as well as further her learning at the commercial cheesemaking level.

“She is brilliant at what she does and lovely too !! I am so inspired by the course” Belinda Needle

 With the assistance of Cheeselinks, Ros looks forward to demystifying the cheesemaking process for participants, and sharing the joy of making cheese in a truly hands on experience!

Course Content:

A fabulous hands on workshop getting to know the basics of cheese making.

Ros will demonstrate to participants how to make a very simple and quick version of halloumi using farm fresh milk. Participants will then work in small groups to make a batch of halloumi. Using a range of seasonal ingredients, each group will then prepare and cook their own halloumi dish creation to enjoy at the end of the session with the whole group.

Cheeselinks products are available for purchase at the end of the session.

Course cost $100 per person

GROUP BOOKINGS CAN BE MADE FOR A MINIMUM OF 6

Please fill out the form at the bottom of this page if you have a group interested in attending

FETTA AND GOURMET FETTA MAKING WORKSHOPS

Course Duration : Full Day

Course Content:

A day of learning how to make a simple and tasty traditional cheese from on of the best.

Participants will learn the basic principles of cheesemaking, including hygiene and sanitation procedures. They will learn to pasteurise milk, then will make fetta and gourmet fetta. Tastings of these cheeses will be provided, and at the end of the day participants will take home their own cheese to nurture and consume at their leisure!

GROUP BOOKINGS CAN BE MADE FOR A MINIMUM OF 6

Please fill out the form at the bottom of this page if you have a group interested in attending

 

Cheeselinks products are available for purchase at the end of the session.

Course cost $170

CAMEMBERT WORKSHOPS

taking the practise of cheese making a little bit further

Participants will learn the basic principles of cheesemaking, including hygiene and sanitation procedures. They will learn to pasteurise milk, then will make camembert, sour cream or mascarpone and quark. Tastings of these cheeses will be provided, and at the end of the day participants will take home their own cheese to mature (this will take several weeks) and consume at their leisure!

Course Duration:Full Day

GROUP BOOKINGS CAN BE MADE FOR A MINIMUM OF 6

Please fill out the form at the bottom of this page if you have a group interested in attending