Our company

Jan Rodriguez’s cheese success took root in the Texas hill country in 2000 where he left his job at a leading technology consulting company to pursue his dream of making the best cheese in Texas. In January 2001, The Cheese Cottage won the Central Texas Excellence in Business Award for Cheese-making.

To us at The Cheese Cottage, building a productive farm with responsibility for the future means intelligent management of both the land and its waste.

The Cheese cottage is therefore a study in total integration, balancing a thousand elements to maintain cost effectiveness and high productivity while protecting the environment.

Ours is both a dairy and crops farm. We grow much of our own feed. Manure and waste water are 100% returned to our land via a sophisticated waste control program and irrigation system that ensures no groundwater seepage or reliance on evaporation to ‘‘make a problem go away."

Even cheese by-products are not wasted: the nutritious whey (the liquid part of milk) is used as part of our integrated herd feeding program.