Farmstead cheese

[2] As a result, the cheeses produced often have unique flavors owing to the farm's local terroir.

[3] Most farmstead cheese is produced from cow, goat or sheep milk, although some farmstead cheeses are produced from water buffalo milk (mainly Buffalo mozzarella).

[4] Farmstead cheeses are most often made on family farms in small batches and are often sold at local farmers' markets.

[3][5] While Europe has long had a very strong tradition of farmstead cheese-making,[6] it is only in the last decades of the 20th century that farmstead cheese-making began to return to prominence in North America.

The small scale of production allows for unique sales points such as cheese from cows raised on non-genetically modified organisms (GMOs)-containing feed.