Monforte Dairy

At Monforte, they’re convinced the small things do indeed make a difference, that agriculture is best practiced on a human scale, and that their cheeses, each in its own quiet way, reflect something a little deeper than the technology behind mass manufactured food – a little of the poetry and passion of life itself.

And they are proud of the astonishingly good milk their shepherds bring them, believing their shepherds are their chief collaborators in building a sustainable sheep dairy industry and in assuring the welfare of the sheep whose milk they use.

Monforte Dairy was launched in the spring of 2004, growing (pardon the pun) organically, slowly, with a steady eye on deepening our knowledge of the art and craft of cheese making even as they reached more and more taste buds

Monforte’s owner/lead cheesemaker, is a veteran chef whose cuisine is well-known to patrons of Stratford’s stellar restaurants Rundles and the Old Prune. A graduate of the inaugural class of ’83 at the Stratford Chefs School, Ruth is past chef at the Stratford Festival’s Green Room restaurant, simultaneously teaching at the Chefs School. Of Mennonite descent herself, Ruth is the mother of three sons, Ben, Christian and Daniel.

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