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[News from FACE] New FACE Network Photo Contest!

Save the date!

We are happy to present the new FACE Network Photo Contest! According to next Annual Meeting in Oslo, this year the theme of the contest is: Taste the cheese. Send us your best picture and participate at the contest, and … Read more

[News from the members] Norway

World Cheese Awards

Blue mold cheese Nideleven Blå from Gangstad Gårdsysteri won the World Cheese Awards (WCA), which was held in Trondheim at the end of October 2023. This is the third time that a Norwegian cheese wins the competition. This year there … Read more

[News from the members] Norway

Cheese Symposium 11.–13.march 2024

Cheese Symposium or Ostesymposium is a professional seminar where artisan and farm cheese producers, as well as other interested parties in Norway, gather for professional training and sharing of knowledge. The cheese symposium is organized by Norsk Gardsost every second … Read more

[News from the members] Myconeos - United Kingdom

Scientists ‘break the mould’ by creating new colours of ‘blue cheese’

Experts at the University of Nottingham have discovered how to create different colours of blue cheese. After discovering how the classic blue-green veining is created, a team of experts from the School of Life Sciences, were able to create a variety … Read more

[News from the Net] Training programmes to boost food-related entrepreneurship in European rural areas

Inspirational idea EIP Agri Programme

Improving skills to reduce inequalities and ensure economic recovery and inclusive and sustainable long-term growth in rural areas with declining populations. Many European countries are witnessing a significant decrease in the population in rural areas, leading to demographic and economic challenges. … Read more

A short review of the Annual Meeting 2023

[News from FACE]

The FACE Network Annual Meeting 2023 took place the 11-12-13 of October in Grangeneuve, Switzerland, in the beautiful countryside of Fribourg. Hosted by the great organisation of Fromarte, Grangeneuve and Agroscope, over 200 participants coming from 15 different countries were … Read more

The current state of health monitoring in France: a look back at the Raw Milk 2023 conference

[News from the members] ANPLF, France

Following the FaceNetwork 2023 congress held in Switzerland on the theme of raw milk, an opportunity to discuss microbiology and risk management, we’d like to focus on the case of France, and more specifically on two presentations given at … Read more

Exploring Latin American cheeses: A trip to Argentina to visit artisan dairies and attend the debut of the ALQA association

[News from the members] Leartiker, Spain

Recently we had the opportunity to travel to Argentina and learn more about the reality of artisanal dairies in several Latin American countries. This trip coincided with the first meeting of the newly established Latin American Association of Artisan … Read more

Raw milk can have health benefits

[News from the members] Hungary and Switzerland

At the beginning of October, we attended a scientific conference in Switzerland, organised by the Farmhouse and Artisan Cheese & Dairy Producers European Network (FACEnetwork). Here, among other topics, nutritional issues were highlighted in one of the sessions, with … Read more

Presentation of the swedish organisation Sveriges Gårdsmejerister

[News from the members] Sweden

Until the 1990s, Sweden’s small-scale cheese production consisted mainly of goat’s milk processing in the more traditional way and mainly in the north of Sweden. Later, more and more farm dairies came to establish themselves in the south with … Read more