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FACE Annual Meeting 2023: the new website is now online!

Follow the link and discover all the information useful to plan your trip in Switzerland! 13th European Farmhouse and Artisan Cheese & Dairy Meeting 2023 Date: 11 – 13 October 2023 Place: Grangeneuve (Switzerland) You will find a rich programme full of interesting topics … Read more

[News from the members] Germany

New project researching about seasonal problems in goat cheese quality

The majority of organic goat milk farms in Germany process the milk themselves in farm cheese dairies, with the aim of producing an authentic cheese with a high quality. According to KTBL evaluations (2021), the economic potential of on-farm milk … Read more

[News from FACE] Preview on the 13th FACE Conference

2023 in Switzerland

Save the date 13th FACE Conference “Roh - Cru - Raw” from 11th - 13th October 2023 in Grangeneuve-Fribourg, Switzerland Preliminary Program Wednesday, 11th October 2023: Full day: Technical tours Evening: Joint dinner with representatives from the swiss dairy sector Thursday, 12th October 2023: Morning: General assembly … Read more

[News from FACE] What is a CDG?

Contact with ‘Brussels’

For both the European Commission (EC) and for stakeholders as FACEnetwork, it is important to be in contact with each other. To facilitate this contact, the Directorate-General on Agriculture and Rural Development has set up the so called Civil … Read more

[News from FACE] Easy tips to make great videos

Get ready for the Video Contest

What to show? Think about what would you like to show, which story would you like to tell. Decide the places, the subjects and anything you would like to include in your video. How to film? You can use a camera … Read more

[News from the members] Sweden

Report of the Ostfestivalen 2023

Visitor record during the ninth cheese festival in Stockholm This previous mounth, the ninth Cheese Festival (Ostfestivalen) was arranged in Stockholm. The festival, which is a celebration of Swedish cheese, had 5300 visitors, a new record. At the festival visitors … Read more

[News from FACE] Video Contest 2023 to go!

The edition 2023 is full of news: Raw Milk is the theme proposed for the contest “We (cheese)make the difference!” and the new section Good ideas prize was introduced. This year the FACE Network Video Contest will include 2 sections: We (cheese)make the … Read more

[News from FACE] Kerstin Jürss is elected as new President of FACEnetwork

In the framework of its General Assembly of Sunday 2nd of October 2022 in Bohinj (Slovenia), the Farmhouse and Artisan Cheese and dairy producers European network, just elected its new President. The change of president was required by the statutes. … Read more

[News from FACE] Annual Meeting and General Assembly - Bohinj, Slovenia

In the first 4 days of October took place the 12th FACE Network Annual Meeting, the first one after the Covid Pandemic

More than 100 representative of farmhouse and artisanal cheese from 13 different countries joined the meeting hosted by the member “Association of Rural Cheesemakers of Slovenia” in the suggestive location of the lake Bohinj. The program was full of interesting … Read more

[News from FACE] Brotherhood

The international cheese buffet

Cheeses are undoubtedly formidable storytellers: it’s amazing how many stories they can tell on multiple levels. Immediately the thought goes to those fascinating life stories, with their roots sunk into well-defined terrains, to which they are viscerally linked. This time … Read more