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Fifth Town is delighted to announce that we have won the 2009 Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence. More details will be coming soon, but we believe that the award was given in large part because of our “green” philosophy and our support for local small-scale farming. UPDATE: Video now available from the OMAFRA link above…

The Daily Commercial News carried a story about Fifth Town’s LEED platinum award - at the time of writing FT is the only commercial building to achieve platinum status!

Sue Riedl described Fifth Town’s Cape Vessey as “a goat cheese made for naysayers”! The full version of the story is here…

The Daily Commercial News carried a report about Fifth Town which was the winner in the architectural merit category in the 2008 Ontario Concrete Awards.

The press release will provide you with additional information regarding the cheese journal. Cover art is also available as a downloadable file.

Downloadable jpegs of the site where the Fifth Town artisan cheese dairy will be constructed beginning 2006.

A brief biography is available for download:

Known as the Garden of Canada in the early 1900s, Prince Edward County once produced 50 per cent of all the tomatoes grown in Canada and was famous for its canning industry, Taylor says.

The county fell into relative obscurity, however, until about 15 years ago when artists and artisans from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal inexplicably began to migrate into the region in ever increasing numbers. Today there are more than 100 artisans in the county.

Fifth Town is mentioned in the article.

Below is a copy of a terrific article on artisan cheese written by Julia Rogers of Cheese Culture. The article was published in City Bites magaine which is distributed as an insert into the urbanites metro must-read NOW Magazine.  City Bites is said to be Toronto’s only magazine dedicated solely to covering the Toronto food and drink scene.  Petra Cooper along with other Ontario Cheese Society members were interviewed for the article.

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This article by Nicole Cohen provides a useful brief overview of what is happening in the artisan cheese world in Ontario.  The Ontario Cheese Society is referenced. Petra Cooper was interviewed.