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Article: How A Business Is Born: Maria Trumpler Needed Raw Milk; Vermont Family Needed A Side Business.
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- Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
- Article date:
- May 3, 2007
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Byline: Kim Martineau
May 3--Bouncing from one teaching job to another left Maria Trumpler tired and discouraged. She perked up one night over a plate of gourmet cheese.
"I couldn't believe that in Massachusetts they made cheeses that delicious," she remembered.
With that, Trumpler would embark on a sideline career as artisan cheese maker, joined by a struggling farm in Vermont looking to diversify its business.
A search for a supply of raw milk led Trumpler from her farm in Vermont's Champlain Valley to a nearby dairy farm. It turned out that her neighbors, three siblings roughly her age, also had an interest in cheese-making. ...