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Photographed by Nina Gallant | Styled by Kendra Smith<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

T<\/span>he story of Carpenter\u2019s Wheel began in 2009 as an experiment. Following his success with smaller aged cheeses such as Cabra LaMancha<\/a> and Black & Blue<\/a>, FireFly Farms<\/a> co-founder Mike Koch wanted to do more. \u201cI was interested in rounding out the line with a big-format, longer-aged goat\u2019s milk wheel,\u201d he says. The result was Bella Vita, which won Super Gold at the 2010 World Cheese Awards. The sudden popularity of the cheese presented a production problem. At his Accident, Maryland facility, Koch simply didn\u2019t have the space to age the wheels. FireFly Farms stopped making Bella Vita, except for an exclusive run for Whole Foods in 2019, when \u201cthe supply lasted barely through the holidays,\u201d says Koch. At the same time, he was having conversations with Crown Finish Caves<\/a>, which partners with cheesemakers to age cheese in tunnels formerly used for fermenting beer in Brooklyn, NY. It seemed to be the ideal solution, except for the timing\u2014the wheels were due to arrive in Brooklyn the third week of March 2020. A leap of faith turned what Koch calls a \u201cbreathtakingly frightening\u201d time into a productive partnership. \u201cIt was really this existential moment for us, because we opened to work with and support cheesemakers and dairy farmers, and we thought, \u2018if we\u2019re not doing that at this moment, then we are not doing what we set out to do,\u2019\u201d says Caroline Hesse, sales manager at Crown Finish Caves. \u201cWe chose to be optimistic. Every time I taste Carpenter\u2019s Wheel, I taste that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere we are here in northern Appalachia there is a deep farming history, and beautiful barns, including the one on our farm, where FireFly started, with a barn quilt on the side that is Carpenter\u2019s Wheel. We sent some pictures to the team at Crown Finish Caves, and that was it.\u201d  \u2013 Mike Koch, FireFly Farms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe wanted it to look smooth, like a pebble or a stone you\u2019d pull from a river. In Mike\u2019s area of Maryland there are all these rivers and waterfalls and lakes\u2014it\u2019s absolutely gorgeous\u2014we wanted to reflect that in the way that the cheese looked.\u201d  \u2013 Caroline Hesse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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