{"id":57,"date":"2025-07-07T09:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:50:06","slug":"cheesemakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/?page_id=57","title":{"rendered":"Cheesemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Maine is home to more than 80 licensed cheesemakers, many of whom are proud members of the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Maine Cheese Guild<\/span><\/span>. The Festival is a celebration of the talent, craftsmanship, and creativity behind Maine-made cheese \u2014 giving attendees the chance to meet the makers, sample exceptional products, and discover why Maine cheesemakers continue to earn recognition on both national and international stages.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.festivalpro.com\/form\/AxickLwGZxcWdNnZxGpS\/0\"><strong>2026 CHEESEMAKER VENDOR APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Applications are due by July, 31, 2026.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-727 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cheesemaker-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cheesemaker-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cheesemaker-272x182.png 272w, https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Cheesemaker.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><em><br \/><\/em><strong>Thank you to last year&#8217;s 2025 Festival Cheesemaker Vendors:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Abraham&#8217;s Creamery, Balfour Farm, ChiGoBee Farm, Cosmic Goat Farm &amp; Creamery, Creamy Acres Creamery, Crooked Face Creamery, Fredrickson Farm, Fuzzy Udder Creamery, Honey Wilde Farm, Jolly Bleat Farm &amp; Creamery, Josh Pond Farm, Kennebec Cheesery, ME Water Buffalo Company, Oaklands Farm, Pineland Farms Dairy, Pumpkin Vine Family Farm, Scalawag Farm, Spring Day Creamery, State of Maine Cheese, Sunset Acres Farm &amp; Dairy, and York Hill Farm.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Contact us at <a href=\"mailto:director@mainecheeseguild.org\">director@mainecheeseguild.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine is home to more than 80 licensed cheesemakers, many of whom are proud members of the Maine Cheese Guild. The Festival is a celebration of the talent, craftsmanship, and creativity behind Maine-made cheese \u2014 giving attendees the chance to meet the makers, sample exceptional products, and discover why Maine cheesemakers continue to earn recognition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/734"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheesefestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}