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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
RESOLUTION HONORING CHAPEL HILL CREAMERY
WHEREAS, Orange County seeks to support new agricultural enterprises that enhance farming
in the County and provide quality food for its residents, and
WHEREAS, one of the first new farms of the 21st century, Chapel Hill Creamery was
established in 2001 with 8 Jersey cows and located just outside Carrboro city limits, and
WHEREAS, Chapel Hill Creamery uses high quality milk from their 16 Jersey cows to create an
expanding variety of specialty farmstead cheeses that are marketed at local farmers markets, to
restaurants, and to local grocers, and ,
WHEREAS, the Southern Foodways Alliance, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Southern
Culture at the University of Mississippi, is dedicated to celebrating, preserving, promoting and
nurturing the diverse traditional and developing food cultures of the American South, and
WHEREAS, the Southern Foodways Alliance recently conducted a cheese competition of
cheeses in the southern region, and
WHEREAS, the judges selected Chapel Hill Creamery's washed rind `Hickory Grove' as one of
the top 10 cow's milk cheeses in the southern region, noting its "buttery and toasty" flavor;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange .County Board of Commissioners
expresses its appreciation of and recognizes Chapel Hill Creamery and its owners Portia
McKnight and Flo Hawley for their contributions to local agricultural production and for providing
a model for successful agricultural enterprises in Orange County.
This the 5th day of December, 2005.
Barry Jacobs, Chair
Orange County Board of Commissioners