Idyll Farms

Idyll Farms is a pasture-based goat farm and creamery in Northport, Michigan that produces award-winning artisanal farmstead chèvre. (Idyll refers to a pastoral scene depicted in song or poem.)

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Idyll Farms cheeses received three awards at the World Championship Cheese Contest (including Best of Class) in 2016, as well as multiple and repeat awards (including in the broad all milk cheese category) at the American Cheese Society North American Competition in 2013, 2014 (the farm’s first two years of production), and 2016. Its cheeses were also named a “Best Artisanal Cheese” in Food & Wine magazine in 2016 and one of “The 49 Best American Cheeses” in Men’s Journal magazine.

Unlike conventionally managed dairy animals raised primarily on grain diets for the production of most commercially available cheeses, Idyll Farms’ certified-humane Alpine goats are pasture-fed using rotational grazing practices which mimic and harness nature's complex, productive processes.

Idyll Farms is owned and operated by hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel, who built the sustainable farm after acquiring its approximately 200 acres in 2010 in his hometown.