Long Paddock Cheese

Our craft is cheesemaking, its culture and skills buried in the aeons of European history. But our home and terroir is central Victoria, Australia – Dja Dja Wurrung country. Djaara (Dja Dja Wurrung People) have lived on their traditional lands and cared for djandak (Country) over many thousands of years. We are privileged to be able to contribute in a small & temporary way to that care.

Based at The Mill Castlemaine, Long Paddock Cheese is a small-scale Australian artisan cheesemaker, recognised as one of the best in Australia. We create deliciously-different hand-made cheeses, mainly in the French style but with a definite Australian identity. Our globally-renowned cheesemaker, Ivan Larcher, heads a small-but-skilled team making soft and semi-hard cheeses and fresh dairy products, perfectly ripened and beautifully packaged. All our products are hand-made from certified-organic cow’s milk from a nearby family-owned farm, delivered to us several times a week.

An important part of Long Paddock Cheese is The Cheese School, offering professional artisan cheesemaking and other dairy training, a range of small-scale business-related training, as well as training for cheesemongers, regulators, home cheesemakers and cheese-lovers. It also serves as a base from which we run consulting work and small-scale events.

In the almost 4 years since we started the business, we have been acknowledged as bringing some of the most exciting developments to Australia’s fast-growing artisan cheese industry.