Low Salt Lactose Free Soft Sheep Cheese
The Tender Lactose-Free and Low Salt Sheep Cheese is the youngest and newest of the Campoestrella family. Young because it has been matured for less than a month and we have also ensured that its lactose content is totally suitable for people with lactose intolerance. Pasteurized sheep’s milk To make this sheep’s cheese we have […]
Traditional and New Shepherd Awards 2016
A few days ago we celebrated our III Congress of Cooking with Cheese and Humor, and as we did in the II Edition, this time we also wanted to highlight the figure of the shepherds. Starting from the beginning, on November 15 we returned to Peñaranda, a town where they make us feel at home […]
Transhumance, Intangible Cultural Heritage in Spain
Last November, the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage and of Archives and Libraries initiated the file for the declaration of transhumance as a representative manifestation of Intangible Cultural Heritage. As stated in the BOE, transhumance in Spain currently constitutes “a living heritage, despite the great reduction in transhumance livestock and the changes […]
Milking sheep
We all remember the old shepherds, who milked their sheep by hand, starting with the first one until they had finished with the flock and without delaying too long, to then make the cheese . Those ancient shepherds milked their sheep twice a day to obtain a greater number of liters. This recognizable hand movement […]
Quesería La Antigua by Mil Caminos
Roads do not always lead to Rome. Quesería La Antigua, as a friend of the University of Salamanca visited the Mil Caminos Foundationthat, if current sanitary conditions permit, it will be held on the occasion of the the first international congress on pastoralism and social inclusion and if shepherds and sheep are involved, Antigua is […]
Shearing sheep. What it is and what it consists of
How many times do you go to the hairdresser to get a haircut in a year? How many times do you think sheep need to be sheared? Shear the ewe once a year. Sheep are sheared once a year, which generally coincides with the wool raising season. This occurs when the wool naturally detaches from […]
