[2] They found a cheese farm selling at a discount price with all of the dated cheese-making machinery still intact on the property.
Formally founded on May 1,[2] Our Lady of the Angels Monastery became the fifth house of Cistercian nuns in the United States, and the first situated in the South.
Hearing about the dilemma, Jim and Margaret Morris, self-described aging hippies,[3] shared their cheese-making skills and knowledge and before long the nuns were ready to sell.
Construction finished in February, 2008, providing the community with new rooms, extra space, and (most importantly), updated machinery for the production of gouda.
Although they do not advertise their two-lb rounds of gouda cheese, they generally sell out their 20,000[3] pounds by Christmas—and then receive orders for Christmas gift certificates that are ready to ship by March.
In addition to mail-in orders for cheese, customers send in prayer intentions that the Sisters take very seriously.