Grafton Village Cheese Company is a cheesemaker in the town of Grafton in the U.S. state of Vermont . The company produces hand-crafted aged cheddar cheese .
3-560: The company is the successor to the 1892 Grafton Cooperative Cheese Company, which was founded to handle surplus local milk. The original company went out of business due to a fire. It was restored in the mid-1960s with help from the Windham Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to "preserve the vitality of Vermont's rural communities". Grafton's cheddar is synthetic-hormone-free and made mostly from Jersey cow milk from Vermont family farms. The most common cheese offered by
6-595: The Grafton Cheese is their block cheddar, made in 40 pound blocks and then cut to different sales sizes. In July 2008 the company celebrated the opening of a new production plant and retail store in Brattleboro . The shop is "a 2,500-square-foot classic barn-like structure encompassing a full-service artisanal cheese shop" offering "more than 70 types of cheeses, wine, Vermont microbrews, fresh bread, maple products and other gourmet food items and accompaniments." In 2014,
9-544: The Grafton Spring Brook milk Cheese won the "Best USA Cheese trophy" at the 2014 International Cheese Awards . 43°10′18.9″N 72°36′33.6″W / 43.171917°N 72.609333°W / 43.171917; -72.609333 This Vermont -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This cheese -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jersey cow Too Many Requests If you report this error to
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