Sierra Nevada Cheese

Sierra Nevada Cheese Company is a Northern California-based producer of natural, grass-fed, and organic cow and goat dairy products. Owned by Ben Gregersen and John Dundon, the company was founded in 1997 when the two met while working for Ben’s father at Foothill Home Dairy. Ben studied cheesemaking in Denmark and Canada, while John began in the dairy industry while in high school, working for a local Mt. Shasta Creamery.

The company began by making cheeses using traditional methods with the highest quality, rBSt-free milk available to sell at local farmers markets and natural foods stores. Demand grew quickly and Sierra Nevada relocated to Willows in Glenn County, a rural milkshed in the heart of Northern California. The company was formerly Glenn Milk Producers, built in 1958 by a local collaborative of farmers producing butter and milk powder. Ben and John purchased the vacant creamery in 2003 and have been renovating ever since. Despite being around for only two decades, Sierra Nevada Cheese Company's roots run deep in the rich dairy tradition of Northern California.