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Great cheese starts with great milk. At Silver Falls Creamery, we start with the highest quality goats’ milk. The mild weather of the Willamette Valley, coupled with lush grasses, provides the perfect environment for our herd, promoting their good health and contentment.

Milk that is uniform in composition and free from objectionable flavor must be guided. With his lifetime of experience in dairy operations, vast knowledge of goats and his expertise in breeding, Dairy Manger, Shawn Hanowell dictates the composition and flavor of the cheese. Climatic changes play a role in the fat content of goats’ milk. To compensate for these changes, Shawn uses his understanding of grain and Eastern Oregon alfalfa to maintain the high quality of the milk’s uniformity all year round.

Hanowell Family

For the last decade, Shawn Hanowell and Hanohaven Farms have delighted family and friends with fresh cheese made with the milk of his blue ribbon herd. As demand grew, Silver Falls Creamery was established. Located in the Willamette Valley, not far from Silver Creek Falls, Silver Falls Creamery provides the highest grade goats’ milk for their award-winning artisan cheeses. The combination of well managed goats, a pristine environment and expert craftsmen means that the consumer is getting the highest quality, freshest and best tasting goat cheese on the market. Recipes developed exclusively for Silver Falls Creamery are unique because the cheese can be used as an ingredient, hors d’oeuvre, on its own or a low fat subsitute for cream cheese.

And this versatility leads to creativity.