Meet the Cheesemaker; Michael Finegan Boyne Valley Farmhouse Cheese

Meet the Cheesemaker; Michael Finegan Boyne Valley Farmhouse Cheese

Join us on Saturday 7th June at 11am for a tour and tasting at Boyne Valley Farmhouse Cheese with cheesemakers Michael and Jenny Finegan.

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By Centre of Food Culture Boyne Valley
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1.4k attendees hosted 📈

Date and time

Saturday, June 7 · 11am - 1pm GMT+1

Location

Boyne Valley Farmhouse Cheese, Slane, Co. Meath C15 RH32

Slane C15 RH32 Slane Ireland

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

Join us on Saturday 7th June at 11am for a tour and tasting at Boyne Valley Farmhouse Cheese with cheesemakers Michael and Jenny Finegan, as part of our Meet the Cheesemakers Series, proudly supported by Sheridans Cheesemongers Ltd.

Michael is a third-generation farmer based outside Slane in the heart of the Boyne Valley. Together with Jenny, the couple began their goat dairy journey in 2008 before establishing Boyne Valley Farmhouse Cheese in 2010. Today, they milk 250 goats and craft award-winning cheeses using milk straight from their herd.

The first cheese they created — Boyne Valley Blue — is a semi-hard blue goat’s cheese and was the first of its kind in Ireland. Since then, it has earned numerous awards across Ireland and the UK. In 2017, they launched Boyne Valley Bán, a white goat’s cheese inspired by Tomme-style French cheeses. It has since surpassed their original cheese in popularity, winning Gold and Best Irish Cheese at the British Cheese Awards and earning multiple stars at the Great Taste Awards.

This event includes a tour of the farm and cheesemaking facility, as well as a guided tasting of their signature cheeses.

Whether you’re a food enthusiast, chef, producer or simply curious to learn more about cheese production, this is a unique opportunity to meet the makers, hear their story, and taste the award-winning results in the beautiful Boyne Valley.


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Centre of Food Culture Boyne Valley
189 followers
1.4k attendees hosted

The Centre of Food Culture, Boyne Valley, believes preserving and celebrating our food culture, past, present and future, we will enhance people’s relationship with food, connect them to the source of their food and the people who produce it. When we speak about food we also include our rich heritage in brewing, distilling and drink production. Our purpose is to facilitate greater connectivity between food, people, soil and sea. We plan to do this by creating the first national Centre of Food Culture, based in the Boyne Valley.

We will leverage our connections nationally to create satellite locations and build international partnerships over time. This centre will facilitate education, discussion, enterprise and advocacy of our food culture for current and future generations. We will strengthen the connections between all stakeholders be they consumers, food producers, food professionals, state agencies, communities, academic institutions locally, nationally and internationally.