Cheeses of Wales

Margaret Davies, who has always worked the Quirt Dairy Farm with her husband Richard, modestly gave me the rundown on her, thus far, short and highly successful career as a cheese-maker. Her son Huw, who grew up on the family dairy farm and took a banking degree, decided to do his dissertation on a fictitious Welsh cheese-making business. This gave Mum the idea to go on a cheese-making course at the local Coleg Menai Food Technology Centre. The course involved making everything from feta to Brie, and her course homework was creating a blue-veined cheese.