OCR Text |
Show WeekendDW&rsions Page 8 We Fit Your Needs Friday, Aug. 31, 2007 Cheese: Two months to age H continued[from page 6 LTERNITY SURANCE •Costs as little as $75 - $175 / MONTH • Pins out as much as $5000-$7000 • Must be in effect 10 months BEFORE you deliver • Works great with other health insurance policies <• ('.real prices on all Life, Health, Auto & Renters Cache Valley Insurance, Inc. 94 South Main, Logan (435) 7524560" Ask for Quent Caspcrson or Curtis Craig farmers harvesting grain and bailing hay, they never get to meet the customers," Hines said. "Once a week I get a shot in the arm when someone says, "We love your cheese.' It's very rewarding." Hines said she began making cheese a few years ago with goat milk that she used to buy even though she and Schropp were raising heifer cows. Eventually it just made sense to use their own cow milk for cheese and see if they could make a business out of it. They had the facilities and the animals, Schropp said, and they wanted to try doing something they had control of. This idea led to visiting California wineries, and the couple decided they could do something like that - b u t not quite. Because of the Cache Valley climate, they wouldn't be able to make wine. Instead they could make cheese. And now, almost three years later, they are still making six different flavors of cheese and are learning about their art. "Every batch is different depending on the season, how the cows are feeling and the grass they eat," Hines said. "Our recipes are still slightly changing and that's normal. A lot of master cheese makers in Europe study cheese making for 20 years." The whole process is very precise, from the temperatures and the time it takes for the cheese to become perfect, Hines said. There are even certain times of the year when the cows won't produce milk. What a lot of people don't know, Hines said, is that the cows have to be bred to be able to produce milk. After that, farmers can milk the cows for 10 months before a dry spell of two months. Someday, if the Rockhill Creamery cows get on the same schedule, the couple could have two months in the year when they wouldn't have to make cheese. But Hines said the girls just aren't cooperating. However, she said she doesn't seem to mind for now. "Our pace of life is different. We don't live in the cubical culture. We're not on our e-mail and cell phones all the time. We have a nice lifestyle," she said. Rockhill Creamery will probably always stay small; the most cows the couple would want to milk is six. Currently they make about 8,800 pounds of cheese a year, and Hines said they are about maxed out. "Some people think we're absolutely insane. We won't make a lot of money," she said. Hines said she was working another 30-hour job as of June and will now just focus on the farm. And for both her and Schropp, it's all worth it. "I like the animals, and I really like the people that buy our cheese," Schropp said. Rockhill Creamery is located at 563 S. State Street in Richmond and is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays during A T R O C K H I L L CREAMERY, the cheese sits in salt water before it ages for two months. TYLER LARSON photo the warm months. Its cheese can also be purchased online, at its stand every Saturday, at the Gardener's Market at Pioneer Park in Logan and at Crumb Brother's, Sweet Peas and Lee's Marketplace. For more information call 258-1278. -manette. n@aggit'tnaiL usu. edu Guitarist Tommy Emmanuel is returning to in Logan Don't miss out on this memorable performance JENNIFER H I N E S DESCRIBES how the cheese ages at Rockhill Creamery in Richmond. The cheese must sit on shelf for two months. Twice a week, it is cleaned and rubbed down by Hines to remove mold. The mold enhances the flavor. TYLER LARSON photo Wed.fiQptQmbgr19th at thQ U2U Performance Hal! 7:30 pm Tickets $ 15 or free with student ID For ticket reservations call 797-3011 Cache Valley Women's Center ? is pleased to introduce , DR. A N N E S. BLACKETT, who will be joining our practice August 1st, 2007. Dr. Blackett is a Utah.native who loves the outdoors and is excited to return to } Utahfo start her medical practice. Anne, her hdsband Cody, and their daughter Claudia are excited to become a part of Cache Valley Women's Cent'er. >Cathe Valley WortterTs Center ' ig SELECT-MED. .'.. .1. . 1325 N o r t h 6 0 0East Suite 1 0 2 ^ ^ 1 753-99 • (43^753-999* i, M D . K-"^, K. Please y $>$>%$ for an All I see is jailbait 'Pervert' is a relative term. Like 'drunk' or 'angry.' Some people think they are drunk when the world starts moving a little bit. We call those people lightweights. Others still won't admit they're drunk even after they've crawled into Beto's — God rest its soul — dressed as Barney, trying to sing the "I love you" song in Spanish and ended up eating their mixed breakfast burrito, wrapper and all, while lounging on the condiment bar in the middle of the restaurant. People also have different definitions of angry, especially when it comes to rating how angry other people are. Very chilled-out people probably think someone screaming monumental strings of four letter words at the top of their lungs at a computer in the lab that won't read their jump drive is pretty angry. Others, mainly Pantera fans, know the computer person is just a little bit upset. For Pantera people, real anger involves driving a semi truck through the wall of a convenience store while listening to "Walk," just because they weren't satisfied with the amount of Funions in the bag they just bought. What was the other word ... oh yeah, pervert. Some may say looking at naked girls/guys, depending on preference, is perverted. Others are less easily offended, and it takes a skanky combination of things like pandas, a bag of Milano cookies, a fire hydrant and six clothespins for them to draw that line of perversion. This week, 1 found that like anything, your definition depends on a few things — namely age and experience. Don't understand where I'm going yet? Well you must not be old, or you must not have been on campus all week. I feel like a dirty old man — some people who know me probably would say that's a compliment compared to some of the things I actually am, but those people are drunks. I'm only 21, but after a week of looking at the new crop of freshmen, I feel like I'm the creepy, handsy PE teacher at some junior high school. For the most part, you'd think it's safe to assume anyone walking around with a backpack in the halls of Old Main, the Taggart Student Center or any other building on campus is at least 18 years old. You know what happens when you assume. This time it has less to do about making an ass of anyone, and more about getting my ass thrown in jail for hitting on a girl who looked like she was 13, but was actually in college, so you assumed she was 18. This is where the 'pervert' is a relative term thing comes in. I feel like a perv hitting on these freshmen girls. There, I said it. I'm scared of jailbait, and to me, most of the new freshman girls I've seen look like they're straight off the DUS and ready for their first day of middle school. Sophomores don't probably have this problem. They're just barely out of high school. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to hook up with freshmen girls — that's what God created freshmen girls for, otherwise they'd all start out as sophomores or juniors — but I can't bring myself to do it. Maybe it's the fact that I feel like a pedophile just being on campus. Or maybe it's just some sense of morality welling up in me that my parents always hoped wouloshow up, but I was sure didn't exist. Maybe I know it's not realistic. We'd have nothing to talk about. They'd want to talk about the latest issue of Tiger Beat or Seventeen magazine, and I'd try to talk to them about Newsweek, The New Yorker or Rolling Stone — no, I don't actually read the first two. I guess I could put some effort in. Get some headgear. Buy an old Hanson CD. Brush up on my MTV reality TV. Anything to take me back to my early teens and hopefully spark some conversation about overarching late-middleschool, early-high-school things. I'm just going to stop. I've dug myself enough of a nole here. Now even if I did make that conscious decision to go ahead and pursue freshmen girls and risk going to jail, this column just burnt those bridges. There's nothing like screwing yourself over. David Baker is a senior majoring in print journalism. Please be nice to him if he tries to hit on you. Comments can be sent to da.bake@aggiemail. usu.edu. |