Artisan Cheese

Artisan cheese makers use love, experience and patience to produce some astounding hand made cheeses. From small creameries and farms come fresh cheeses, washed and bloomy rind, blue, hard and semi hard artisan cheeses. Handcrafted by the best cheese makers across Canterbury into favourite Blues, Brie, Edams and Camembert.

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Barry's Bay Cheese

Barry’s Bay’s first cheddar cheese was made in the late 1890s by the ancestors who knew what it took to make good cheese. As the years went by, while many of the neighbouring farms stopped their cheese-making processes – Barry’s Bay simply refined theirs until 1950 where they went at the cheese-making industry at full steam. ​

Charing Cross Sheep Dairy

Producers of artisan sheep milk cheese and milk products- yoghurt, kefir, gelato. Based at Charing Cross in mid Canterbury, everything processed on farm. A farming family owned small business with ethical principles at its heart

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