Cato Corner Farm

Cato Corner Farm, LLC, is a mother-son partnership. Elizabeth MacAlister has owned the farm for more than 30 years. She began milking cows and making cheese in 1997 as a way to keep her farm sustainable. To get started, she took a technical course in cheese making at California Polytechnic University and a workshop with a Belgian cheese master, and then she began experimenting. Her son Mark Gillman left his job as a 7th grade English teacher to join her in 1999. Mark learned from Elizabeth as well as from several additional workshops (and more experimentation!). Nowadays, Mark makes most of the cheese and oversees its aging, while Elizabeth manages the farm operations including milking and caring for the cows. The rest of the Cato Corner family includes several full time and part time workers and a pair of diligent and attentive border collies named Flute and Harp. "Cheeseheads should seek out Cato Corner Farm.