It's National Plan Your Vacation Day and we sure hope you'll plan to spend some of your vacation with us!

Join us for a one of a kind experience...The Goat Cheese Making Class at our 5 acre farm in Penrose, Colorado (45 minutes south of Colorado Springs).  Since 2010, we've taught over 1200 people to milk goats and make cheese!

Click Here For The Schedule of All Classes or read on to learn more...

Wonder what it's about?  Well, grab a cup of coffee and settle in.  I'll tell you:

Your class includes more than just making goat cheese...When you arrive at our farm, you'll relax in your car until I come out and wave at you, that's your cue to come in! We'll take a few minutes to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea around the table and get to know each other, then together we'll make honey whole wheat bread from scratch.

While it's rising, we'll head outside and take a farm tour to meet all of the animals, collect eggs from the chickens, and we'll teach you to milk the goats!  (Even though you came here to learn to make goat cheese, milking the goats seems to be everyone's favorite part!)  Milking is an art, don't worry, we won't be too hard on you for squirting a few drips outside the pot, and if you squirt me, that's extra credit.

After spending about an hour outside, we'll take the milk inside and strain it while discussing the benefits of raw goat milk and the rationale behind pasteurization. You'll even have the opportunity to taste it!  Remember our rising bread dough? Now, we need to take a quick break to form it into loaves to let it rise one more time before baking.

And, finally, we'll start to make cheese.  First, we'll make a simple, soft herbed goat cheese.  It's the best place to start when you're new to cheesemaking.  After your astounding success with your goat cheese, we'll move onto something more difficult...goat milk mozarella. About mid-way through making the mozarella, we'll start baking the bread and ooooohhh, does it start to smell good!

After a full morning, and with our stomachs yearning for a bite fresh bread, we'll scramble the farm fresh eggs we collected in the morning, slice the just baked and still warm bread, open up a jar of our favorite preserves, toss together a salad of organic greens with our farmstead feta and homemade dressing and to top it all off, we'll indulge in our famous White Milkshakes for dessert - formally reserved just for kids, but added to the menu after enough adults begged!

As you're wrapping up your meal, I'll package up the remaining morsels of cheeses you made (that didn't get eaten) so you can take them home.  And finally, just before leaving, you'll choose the (all made on our farm) 4 oz bottle of Goat Milk Lotion, bar of Goat Milk Soap and tube of Goat Milk Lip Balm that you want to take home with you!

All the recipes for everything we make are included with the class...even for the White Milkshake!  You just have to get the goat!

The Goat Cheese Making Class is held at our farm in Penrose, Colorado (45 minutes south of Colorado Springs), starts at 8:15, ends at 1:15ish, costs $100 per person and is limited to 4 people per class. (If a family, friend or work group is larger than 4 people, we may be able to increase the size of the group, just ask!)  To Schedule a Class, Call 719-651-9819.  Click Here For The Schedule of All Classes

We sure hope to see you in 2017!

- The Plan Your Vacation Today Goat Cheese Lady

P.S.  If you've already taken the class, would you share this email with someone you think might enjoy it?  Thanks!!