Celebrate American Cheese at The Cheese Shop. Sample your favorite American Cheeses while learning from and speaking to the Cheesemakers themselves. Join us Fridays and Saturdays throughout the month of October for Meet the Maker at The Cheese Shop. American Cheese Month is a grassroots celebration of North America's delicious and diverse cheeses, and the farmers, cheesemakers, retailers, cheesemongers, and chefs who bring them to your table. Each American Cheese Month, we aim to recognize and raise awareness of the quality and diversity of American cheeses. Support and promote great cheese, local foods, family farms, traditional methods, and sustainable production models Generate funding for the nonprofit American Cheese Education Foundation. The Cheese Shop & American Cheese Society want to see your American Cheese Month photos! Share your cheese-y images on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook, and tag your photos with #AmericanCheeseMonth #ConcordCheeseShop October 4th Cobb HIll Farm, Vermont October 5th Shelburne Farms, Vermont October 11th Parish HIll Cheese with head cheese maker Peter Dixon. Also from 3:30-5:30 Firefly Farms, Maryland October 12th Cato Corner Farm, Conneticut October 18th Grey Barn, Martha's Vineyard. With their own limited batch speck October 19th Westfield Farm, Hubbardston, Mass October 25th Cricket Creek Farms, Williamstown, Mass October 26th TBD-Mozarella Making