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Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese is a small goat cheese dairy located in Stuyvesant, New York. It works with many farms in the surrounding Hudson Valley as part of the local food movement.



History of the farm
Husband and wife Shereen and Todd Wilcox founded in 2006 Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese with an original goat farm located in Hallstead, Pennsylvania. By January 2009, the dairy was making cheese from 31 goats. In 2010, it began selling goat cheese at the Union Square Greenmarket, 77th Street Greenmarket, and Columbia Greenmarket in New York City. In February 2013, Shereen Alighanian had divorced from Todd Wilcox and sought to move the dairy to Columbia County, New York. Through the Farmer Landowner Match Program of the Columbia Land Conservancy, she secured a location for Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese on the property of Monkshood Nursery in Stuyvesant, New York. By August 2013, the farm had set up its new barn and cheese facility on the Monkshood Nursery property and begun selling goat cheese again at New York City greenmarkets.

Products and process
As of 2014, Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese sells 8 varieties of goat cheese: Bigelo, Doolan, Feta, Fresh Chevre, Green Peppercorn Pyramid, Herb Coated Button, Honey Lavender Chevre, and Mammuth. The food publication Edible Brooklyn described Ardith Mae's chevre as "loose and airy, pillow-soft and perfectly spreadable, flecked with a gentle dusting of sea salt." The farm raises Saanen and LaMancha dairy and meat goats that have been approved by the U.S.-based Animal Welfare Approved organization.