The Ruiz Farm Featuring Golden Glen Creamery

from 2022 Festival of Family Farms

Taylor Shellfish Farms

VIP: 15% off total purchase

Address: 15014 Field Road, Bow, WA 98232 Miles off of I-5: 5.5 Creamery Phone: 360-766-6455 Owners: Norma Ruiz Website: www.goldenglencreamery.com

FARM TYPE: Dairy with Creamery. DIRECTIONS: From I-5 take exit #231 (Chuckanut Dr.), north on Chuckanut Dr. 4 mi., cross Samish River. Turn left on Field Rd, 1¼ miles, dairy on left. FARM PREMISES: 150-cow (Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey) dairy farm with view of Mt. Baker, Anacortes and Lummi Island.

Farmstead cheese, butter & retail store.

~FREE~ FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES:

• Farm petting zoo • Artifi cial cow milking “Squirty Gertie” • Meet the farmer (at “learning stations” around the farm) • Train ride • Face painting • Pin the tail to the cow

FREE SAMPLES: Cheese Learn while touring these premises: The process of how milk and cheese makes it to our tables RETAIL ($): Cheddars, Goudas, Mozzarella, Feta and cheese curds (a.k.a. “Squeaky Cheese”); specialty cheeses, butter and cultured dairy products. FARM HISTORY: Golden Glen Creamery started in 2004 by making artisan farmstead cheese. By 2006 the Creamery began making butter to add to their already delicious cheeses. Golden Glen Creamery has kept its original recipes and used 100% All-Natural ingredients. From fi lling the vat with raw milk, to cutting every piece of cheese by hand, we believe that our hands and beautiful cows are what makes our cheese the best for your table. AGFARMATION: When Golden Glen Creamery started in 2004, the Cheese makers in Washington State were few and far between-maybe as many as a dozen or so. In 2011, there were at least 43 licensed Cheese makers in the state. In 1967 there were over 1,400 dairies in operation in Washington State, while today there are fewer than 460.