I left my camera at work so I was not able to share these photos when I got home last night and had my sister in law take photos of dinner, which I don't have a cord for so I will post those in my next entry.

Yesterday was special because I had cheese and butter that was purchased directly from the farmer that produced it. When I started Local Thursdays I went around to my normal stores in search for the "local" sticker and figured that cheese would be hard to come by. Most of the dairy and cheese that I do find, while they are from small sustainable farmers, seem to be in Pennsylvania or other local, but not to me places.

I spotted  block of goat feta at the Harvest Moon and was delighted to see that Sterling Bridge Farm is located in Willis about 13 miles from the town of Floyd. I found their website online at localharvest.org and sent them an email asking where I could find more of their cheese and so I was invited for a visit.

I met Randy Wednesday afternoon with Josh's sister and our nephew Dylan and he gave us the grand tour of Sterling Bridge Farm. There was so much to soak in and learn that I regretted not taking paper with me. You know when you meet someone and you are just amazed at what they do and why they do it that you just stand there staring at them listening? That was me, I tried to keep myself from saying "no way!!" over and over. I am impressed and grateful for what he does with his wife and son every single day. I also love goats even more, they are so curious.

I purchased mozzarella, soft cheddar, goat feta and butter. You can visit their website here. I hope to include more posts with in depth information about their farm, which I think you'd be interested in reading why they do what they do, where they came from before this, cheese production and the importance of what they do.

This is my only food photo for yesterday, but for breakfast I had eggs (15 miles), toast (flour, 30 miles), butter (from Sterling Bridge Dairy Farm) and bacon. The bacon is from mocksvilla, nc about 111 miles away. Still looking for bacon in Floyd.

For lunch, I wasn't hungry until about 2 so I had half of a whole wheat sandwich (local bread) with tomato (20 miles), bacon (111 miles) and cheddar from Sterling Bridge Dairy. So good!
For dinner I made bacon and onion pizza. Homemade dough by me, homemade tomato sauce, local garlic, local bacon, local onions, and mozzarella from Sterling Bridge Dairy Farm. I also had cucumbers and tomatoes from our garden and a red pepper from about 15 miles away.