Hello from Nevada

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    Eric
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    I have been working on starting a very small cheese operation out of my home. It has been quite an interesting adventure. For a little over four years I have been buying and making the required equipment.

    I was able to find a 3-A Approved 4 gallon vat & recorder from MicroDairy Designs (Which I modified slightly) along with a nice press table. I custom designed the small drain vat myself.

    After moving from Oregon to Nevada I remodeled part of my garage and got it licensed as a make room.

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    #4316 Reply
    Punkin
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    Eric, nice set up. You are very fortunate that you could get certified. In Michigan we need so many separate rooms and so many regulations that small operations are prohibited.

    #4317 Reply
    Punkin
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    What kind of cheese do you make or specialize in? Do you have a market for your product?

    #4319 Reply
    Eric
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    I mainly make cheddar, Colby, jack and blue cheese. I am also marketing a specialty cheese that my father made in Wisconsin back in the 90s.

    The regulations are very tough here also and I have spent the past year working with them to get licensed. I have to say that The Nevada Dairy Commission and Washoe County have been very helpful and willing to work with me through the whole process.

    #4320 Reply
    Punkin
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    I would like to know more about the process you went through and how large your facility is. I can’t even begin without about twenty five hundred square feet and several rooms. I have an existing building but can’t get everything the regulations call for inside it. A lab, brine room, break room, locker’s for employees. It just goes on and on.

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    Eric
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    If I didn’t get approval as a home business it would have been the same for me. I’m not allowed to have employees and the square footage has to be less than 30% of my Home size.

    I remodeled part of my 3 car garage and I stayed under 200 square feet. Anything over 200 square feet required stricter regulations like a sprinkler system for one.

    I built this as a test market plant So my current volume is very small and the largest vat I would use in this plant would be 15 gallons.

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