HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 12-05-2005-6bORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: December 5, 2005
Action Agenda
Item No. ~~
SUBJECT: Resolution Honoring Chapel Hill Creamery
DEPARTMENT: Economic Development PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No
ATTACHMENT(S):
Resolution
INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dianne Reid, 245-2326
PURPOSE: To recognize Chapel Hill Creamery and its owners -Flo Hawley and Portia
McKnight -upon the recognition of Hickory Grove cheese as one of the top ten cow's milk
cheeses in the South,
BACKGROUND: After extensive research and training in cheesemaking, Portia McKnight and
Flo Hawley opened the Chapel Hill Creamery in 2Q01. The Creamery currently has 16 Jersey
cows and produces specialty farmstead cheeses marketed at farmers markets, to restaurants,
and to local grocers.
The Southern Foodways Alliance, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at
the University of Mississippi, recently conducted a cheese competition of Southern cheeses.
The judges selected Chapel Hill Creamery's washed rind Hickory Grave cheese as one of the
ten best cow's milk cheeses,
FINANCIAL IMPACT: None
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the attached
resolution commending Chapel Hill Creamery and its owners for their recent honor and for
providing a model innovative agricultural enterprise,
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 caws 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, 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 tap 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 far providing
a model for successful agricultural enterprises in Orange County.
This the 5`h day of December, 2005.
Moses Carey, .)r., Chair
Orange County Board of Commissioners