I started writing about cheese in my blog, Pacific Northwest Cheese Project. Through writing I quickly became immersed in the rapidly expanding artisan cheese movement. Later I got to do fun cheese related things including serving as a judge in both the American Cheese Society and American Dairy Goat Association cheese competitions. I was also president of the Oregon Cheese Guild. Eventually I also published two books about cheese - Artisan Cheese of the Pacific Northwest (2009) and Pacific Northwest Cheese: A History (2013).
My writing about cheese - and goats! - has also appeared in a number of publications including The Oregonian, Mix Magazine, Edible Portland, Willamette Week and Goat Journal.
My forthcoming book about goat history and culture will be published soon by Oregon State University Press.
