Sonoma - Loop #1
Start in Petaluma at Petaluma Creamery & Cheese Shop, next to the creamery. Pick up cheeses from both Petaluma Creamery and Spring Hill Jersey Cheese before heading into the countryside.
If you’ve planned ahead, make the short drive to Achadinha Cheese Company. Schedule a visit through its website to meet the family farm’s goats and cows, see the creamery, taste the cheese, and take some home.
Then follow the road toward the coast and the tiny town of Valley Ford. At Valley Ford Cheese, watch the cheese wheels through the window and choose from its award-winning Swiss-Italian-style cheeses. Stay for lunch, gather picnic supplies, or treat yourself to homemade soft serve. The milk for its products comes from son Jim’s nearby herd of Jersey cows.
Petaluma Creamery & Cheese Shop
The Petaluma Creamery has served local dairy farmers and producers for over 100 years. It has played an integral role in ensuring the longevity & community of our family farms.
7 Days A Week from 9am-5pm
Spring Hill Jersey Cheese
Rich, organic 100% Jersey Milk is the secret to Larry Peter’s cheese. Larry raises his Jerseys on a farm just on the outskirts of Petaluma. The Petaluma Creamery, where Spring Hill Cheese is made, is the largest creamery in the area.
7 Days a Week from 9am-5pm
Achadinha Cheese Company
The Achadinha (Osh-a-deen-a) Cheese Company/ Pacheco Family Ranch is a family operated ranch lead by Jim and Donna Pacheco along with their four children William, Daniel, Elizabeth and David.
Valley Ford Cheese
Five generations of the Bianchi/Grossi family have raised dairy cows on this prime farmland in Sonoma County. Karen Bianchi-Moreda and her son Joe now make Swiss-Italian-style and blue cheese from the milk of their Jersey herd.
Monday: 8am-3pm
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 8am-3pm
Thursday: 8am-3pm
Friday: 8am-3pm
Saturday: 8am-4pm
Sunday: 8am-3pm
