MAY 27, 2026
Point Reyes Farmstead: Where California Coastal Fog Meets Award-Winning Blue Cheese
Driving along Highway One through Point Reyes Station, you might notice a weathered sign pointing toward the Giacomini Dairy. What you're seeing is the headquarters of one of California's most successful cheese transformations. Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company didn't start as a cheese company at all. It began as a family dairy operation that was slowly drowning under the weight of 500 Holstein cows on 720 acres of coastal pasture. By the mid-1990s, the Giacomini family faced a choice: sell the farm or find a way to make it work. They chose transformation, and in August 2000, launched their first cheese, Original Blue.
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