Ewenity

Visit us at our dairy in Fergus or any of the farmer’s markets we attend to try our products for yourself!  Never had any sheep milk products before?  Just ask us for a taste!

Another article about our cheese was contained in the Summer 2008 edition of Sideroads Magazine.  Page 1  Page 2  It is in PDF Format, so please make sure that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed.  If not, click here to get it.

The Fall 2008 edition of Edible Toronto Magazine, contained a great article about our cheese and our operations.  Click here to read the original article.  It is in PDF Format, so please make sure that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed.  If not, click here to get it.

In the September 2008 edition of the Report on Businesses, our cheese was put up against the best cheeses in Canada.  To our surprise and honour, our Eweda cheese was picked for the top seven!  Click here to read the whole article.

If you have a known allergy to cow milk products, sheep milk products may be of help to you, since the main proteins in the milk are subtly different. However, some people will be allergic to all milks, so caution is advised. Please talk to your doctor if you have serious allergies. (…more info.)

The amount of lactose in sheep, goat and cow milk is very similar (4.8%, 4.1% and 4.5% respectively), so sheep milk and its derivatives are not inherently low in lactose. However, as with any cheese, the longer it is aged, the lower the amount of lactose. (…more info.)

The main feedstuffs are pasture (grasses, clover and the occasional flower or vegetable from our gardens!) and hay (dried pasture). At certain times of the year, the sheep are fed grain (barley, oats or wheat) as a supplement.

Yes. We use animal (calf) rennet in most of out products to maintain traditional integrity. However, our “Brebis Frais” and Feta are produced using microbial rennet.

Under Canadian law, any cheeses less than 60 days old must be pasteurized - consequently our “Brebis Frais”, “Brebette” and “Sheep in the Meadow” are pasteurized. Our “Eweda”, “Ramembert” and Feta are available pasteurized or raw. In 2008 we introduced 2 new raw milk cheeses – “Brigitte” and “Mouton Rouge”.

No. However our meat, milk and cheeses are “natural”, meaning that we do not give antibiotics prophylactically and we do not use hormones to increase milk production or growth. We are also members of “Local Flavour Plus” who have audited our farms on the criteria of animal welfare (a component not considered in organic certification) as well as sustainable farming practices. We abide by the “5 Freedoms” regarding animal welfare as outlined in the section regarding our farms. We take stewardship of our land and animals very seriously!