Teresa Roche bringing her unique Kylemore Farmhouse Cheese to consumers in her native Galway

IT hasn’t been the easiest of years for anyone trying to carry on in business when dealing with the public but Teresa Roche of Kylemore Farmhouse Cheese in Abbey, Loughrea, has taken on the challenge with a fair dose of optimism.

Over recent weeks, her cheeses have gained recognition in the widely regarded John and Sally McKenna’s Good Food Guides in the small producer’s category.

The problems and restrictions on sales caused by the Covid-19 situation prompted Teresa Roche to establish cheese and farm shop on their home farm during the Summer gone by.

“I suppose we had to re-invent the wheel a bit because of the restrictions brought about by Covid but things have worked out well for us and we have been very busy over recent months,” said Teresa Roche.

The key to the success of the Kylemore Cheese brand is that everything is locally produced with the Summer milk from the Roche dairy farm providing all the raw material for their cheeses.

Teresa, a qualified nurse, who worked in that profession for a number of years has travelled to many places all around the world, with her cheese making skills learned and finely honed during a term in the Swiss alpine region.

She’s now fully committed to the farm family business and the dairy herd built by her father Bertie Roche – prominent in Galway IFA for many years – with 10% of their milk now going into cheese production.

“It really is all about local and everything being totally traceable. We have a closed herd [no buying in of stock} with our cheese produced from summer milk and summer grass.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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