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Ottawa Magazine pairs County Wines with Fifth Town cheese.
Fifth Town expands into cows’-milk cheese
by CheeseLover.ca
Only 20 months after Fifth Town Artisan Cheese first began producing cheese, Petra Cooper, founder and president, isn’t resting on the laurels of critical acclaim that greeted her goat and sheep cheeses. read more
Fortune Magazine shoot
Finn O’Hara Photography | Blog
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Cheese of the Week: Cape Vessey
From Textbooks to Triple Crème
By Jena McGregor
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Cheese maker comes of age with energy-smart dairy
by Naomi Carniol, Special to Globe and Mail Update
Published on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
The windmill is the first clue. The eight solar panels on the roof are another. A visitor to Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co. in Prince Edward County, Ont., quickly realizes this is no ordinary dairy. read more
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2008-09 Wood Design Awards book
Investing in a creative economy
Yolande E. Chan And Jeff A. Dixon, Financial Post
Published: 2/2/2010 12:00:00 AM
In 2007, Petra Cooper left a big-city job in the publishing industry to start up Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Co., a niche cheese producer near small-town Picton, Ont. While networking with local sheep and goat farmers to discuss new farming techniques and negotiate milk prices may sound like an antiquated way to spend the work day, her investment may reflect the future of rural Canada’s prosperity.
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You Can Integrate “Doing Well by Doing Good” in a Business Model
Excerpt from Dan Corbett’s interview with the Petra Cooper, the founder of Fifth Town.
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The Importance of Being Defined
Whether it is a cheese tasting event or a group of cheese makers having a beer after work, the subject of how “artisan” cheese is defined or “what makes a cheese artisan” can make for a spirited debate.