From the editor.
EVERY MOTHER'S DAY, weather permitting, my extended family gathers for a picnic at the Marin French Cheese Company in the green hills just west of Petaluma, California. We stretch out on the big lawn and spend a languid afternoon in the sun catching up with each other, feasting on...

Cheese from the farm: watch two of the West's best artisanal producers turn milk into pure dairy heaven.
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME to eat Western cheese. Dozens of fine artisanal producers have popped up here in the past several years, and if you walk into your neighborhood cheese shop (or even a well-stocked grocery store), you're likely to find all kinds of local cheese,...

Deteccion de variantes alelicas de la kappa-caseina en bovinos Harton del Valle.
RESUMEN Se utilizó ADN de 2 machos y 34 hembras de la raza de ganado criollo Hartón del Valle para detectar polimorfismos en el gen que codifica para la kappa-caseína ([kappa]-CN) mediante PCR-RFLP (reacción en cadena de la polimerasa-polimorfismo en la longitud de los fragmentos de restricción)...

ENTREE NOTES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Publication features sheep milk cheese Making cheese at home is becoming more popular today, according to the OSU Extension Service, and the interest in making cheese from sheep milk is growing in Oregon. The OSU Extension and Experiment...

ENTREE NOTES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Oregon cheesemakers win national awards Five Oregon cheesemakers captured awards during the 2007 American Cheese Society Competition recently held in Burlington, Vt. Willamette Valley Cheese of Salem won six awards, including firsts for its Farmstead Gouda and Perrydale...

USDA hosting pasture walks series.
AMHERST - Local farmers and others interested in learning about grazing livestock are invited to attend a series of pasture walks hosted by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, UMass Extension and the Massachusetts Chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association/Massachusetts Chapter this summer and fall. Raising...

Like `Our Town,' but a little weirder ...
Byline: The Register-Guard OPENING THIS WEEK A surreal mystery, a taut show about lonely people in a chance encounter and an off the wall comedy open this week on area stages. Book of Days Very Little Theatre Friday through...

Environmental Power Announces Key Dairy Partnerships in California; Capacity Expected to Meet Gas Purchase Pact with PG&E.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Environmental Power Corporation , a leader in the renewable biofuels industry, announced today that its Microgy, Inc. subsidiary has executed definitive lease and manure handling agreements with several California dairies for the development of renewable gas facilities. At full operation these facilities are...

Cheese if you please.
When you think of high quality cheese you're thinking France (camembert, roquefort, etc, etc) or Italy (parmesan, mozzarella) or Britain (stilton). You're not likely to be thinking Ireland, yet on a recent trip I discovered that this country, best known in a culinary sense for potatoes, Guinness and Baileys...

Wine hunt!
Byline: Inder Raj Ahluwalia Temperate climate, healthy rains and fertile soils, set below the dramatic backdrop of the Brokenback Ranges. If it all sounds a bit dreamy, just sign on and hop across for the seduction. We'd left while the morning sunlight was still pale gold. ...