Creamery / Cheesemaker
Blue Heron Dairy
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Small-batch farmstead cheese and fresh milk is what our creamery near Chicago does best. We keep it small batch and grass fed. We sell from the farm shop, so you can meet the people behind your food and ask anything you like.
What they grow and make
How they farm
Their story
It comes from a small creamery in the deep prairie soil of Illinois, where the milk barely travels. Nothing is rushed to fit a calendar.
What makes it different: the animals eat grass and forage, never grain in a feedlot, and it is made in small batches, with attention over scale.
At Blue Heron Dairy, every batch is made and turned by hand.
From the creamery to your table without a long road in between.
Restaurants that source from Blue Heron Dairy
- The Larder Provisions (Plant-forward in Uptown)
- Provisions Table (Pacific Northwest in Riverside)
- Thistle Supper Club (Californian in West End)
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