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Photographed by Adam DeTour  <\/span>|  S<\/span>tyled by Kendra Smith<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Making good cheese starts with good milk, which in turn starts with good feed and ultimately, good dirt. The dirt in central Illinois, which was once wet prairie, is some of the richest and most fertile in the world. Leslie Cooperband and Wes Farrell of Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery<\/a> want to make sure it stays that way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The cheese was partly born of ways we could more utilize our farm resources. We have this amazing herb garden, and we often plant edible flowers”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Before Cooperband and Farrell began raising goats and making cheeses, they had been professors of soil science, which helps to explain why the pastures at Prairie Fruits look more like baby forests than they do typical grazing land. In addition to perennial grasses, the Animal Welfare Approved herd feeds on legumes, herbaceous plants, and young tree leaves\u2014a practice called silvopasture, which is as beneficial to the earth as it is to the goats and their milk. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur attempt is not to create a certain flavor profile with the herbs and flowers, but to adorn the cheese with them to tie it back to place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Flavor of place is present in all of Prairie Fruits\u2019 cheeses, but none so much as Fleur de la Prairie. Made between April and November, the geotrichum-rinded wheel is adorned with dried edible flowers and herbs from the farm\u2019s gardens. \u201cI was loosely inspired by Brin D\u2019Amour<\/a>\u2014a Corsican sheep\u2019s milk cheese\u2014to reflect where the cheese is made,\u201d says Cooperband. Because it has such a delicate and distinctive flavor, she likes to keep accompaniments simple: \u201cA drizzle of early season honey\u2014lighter and more floral\u2014and a crusty baguette or a plain wheat cracker.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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