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Adopt a Shepherd and a Wild Cheese

fight for protecting cheese culture

MANIFESTO -Adopt a Shepherd and a Wild Cheese-

What we fight for!!

Cheese lovers agree that cheeses produced with raw milk are very often organoleptically superior to those produced with pasteurized milk.


Raw milk cheese without added ferments best expresses the territory where it was produced and the skills of the producer. 

The microbes naturally present in milk just after milking are numerous, complex and produce more aromatic compounds, furthermore the natural microflora present in the milk is specific to the producer and expresses the history, techniques, territory, people, breeds, climate where the cheeses are produced.

So heat treat the milk before cheesemaking means killing all of this opportunities.


Raw milk is not the only element that contributes to creating a great cheese, it also requires a good cheesemaker and a good milk rich in aromatic complexity.

It is necessary to graze the animals and feed them with grass, hay, avoiding monofeed, silage and anything else used in industrial diary farms which aims to increase productivity at the expense of quality.


A cheeses produced with no heat treatment, no industrial starters, with natural rennet, with grass fed milk can be defined as Natural Cheeses or as we prefer a Wild Cheeses.


Producing cheeses in respect of the traditions is more complex and risky than produce anonymous pasteurized milk cheeses using help as additives such as calcium chloride, enzymes, antifungals.


Making Natural Cheeses - Wild cheeses is less profitable and more risky, that is why this producers and their wonderful cheeses are disappearing and with them their old traditions and "secrets".

Being a Shepherd often means to be considered at the bottom of the social ladder.


This is not right!

  • We are for raw milk cheeses and we are for wild cheeses
  • We are for (eventually) use of starters such as wheystarters in contrast to industrial starters
  • We are for transforming into cheeses noble milk or milk obtained from grazing animals (when possible) and / or fed on hay
  • We are for transhumance
  • We are for protecting of the most authentic traditions
  • We are for non-trivial flavors
  • We are for the fair remuneration of producers who produce in compliance with natural cycles
  • We are for the respect of the shepherds, guardians of the territory and traditions and for their social enhancement.
  • We are for variations in taste and characteristics of natural cheese according to the seasons
  • We are for the environment protection and for the reduction of greenhouse gases
  • We are for animal welfare



What can we do?

We wondered

What more can we do in our business to put in practice what we believe in? 

What can we do, in the producer-consumer chain, to create value among the producers we believe in?

What can we do so that these traditions are not lost and then the dead or dying cheeses produced with industrial milk wins and traditional production will disappear?


We said to ourselves

We must create a virtuous link, not only economical but above all, emotional and moral, between the consumer and the Shepherd who respects these values. Adopt a Shepherd and a Wild cheese is our program that aims to connect the customer with the producer with a non-invisible thread.

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How does it work ?

How to Adopt a Shepherd and a Wild cheese?

How to Adopt a Shepherd and a Wild cheese?

-Undertaking to buy a minimum yearly quantity of cheese during the year from a Shepherd of your choice between the one selected for respecting the mentioned values.

-Undertakes to know, then promote inshore the Shepherd and his cheese.

What does Italian Food Hunters do?

How to Adopt a Shepherd and a Wild cheese?

During the year we will send you pictures, videos and info to follow the shepherd daily activities like the cheese production, the birth of animals, in short, we will try to make you be present and close to the adopted Shepherd.

Which advantages can you have?

Which more advantages you can have?

At the end of the year 2021, 2 customers that respected the engagement will be draw to take part in a trip to Italy to visit the adopted Shepherd, his territory, his productions and participating in the production of a SPECIAL EDITION CHEESE in the dairy.

The SPECIAL EDITION CHEESE recipe will be developed in cooperation with Customer Italian Food Hunters and Shepherd.

Which more advantages you can have?

Which more advantages you can have?

Which more advantages you can have?

You can go to bed thinking that, through your business, you are saving a local production, with probably centuries of history, that is on the way to disappear

You can go to bed thinking that thanks to your purchases someone feels proud, supported and motivated to pursue against all production and profitability difficulties-be proud is worthy than just money!

How to do in practice

Which more advantages you can have?

How to do in practice

It's easy, contact us and you will get more in-depth information about the shepherd, his cheeses and the area where he lives.

Choose your favorite shepherd and his cheeses

You don't have to buy the cheeses all at once, just commit to buying a minimum agreed quantity during the year.

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