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Jannei Marinated Goat’s Milk Cheese has been added to our website shop-

Jannei Creamy Fetta, spelt with two t’s, is a beautiful summer cheese. Handmade and packed on farm- these marinated jars of fetta goat milk cheese, are a Farmers Market favourite.

We make our goat milk cheese fetta in summer . Marinated goats milk cheese available online, we hope, will give you the charm, as if you have found us at a market.  Handmade labels and beautifully filled to briming, jars- for gifting at any time of year.

Jannei is at three markets these days, but are proud to say we were in Eveleigh Markets first year -winter of 2010 and that year they won an award for the best market in Sydney. We were proudly at at Pyrmont Farmers Market start in  1998  till 2007 ! 2007 we won 7 awards at the Royal Easter Show and Neil had open heart surgery soon after . Amazingly – he is still here making amazing cheese.

Jannei has found getting to the markets  harder over the years .  Wages for an 8 hour turnaround set up and drive back- plus market fees and petrol, mean you have to sell a lot of product just to be there.

With Jannei products we are such a small farm making small batches of all our products. You can know what goes into all of our cheese is exceptional. Starting with our farm harvested raw goats milk. The marinated cheeses are no exception. Our marketing is about high end food inside a package or jar, no shortcuts, no preservatives , no stale food, no cheap fillers!

The Product-

Marinated Goats Cheese Fetta-
Is a semi hard goats milk cheese with a creamy lingering back palette flavour  . These fresh subtle favours entice you back for more .  Made on farm during  summer months . Fetta is stored in a 10% salt brine and packed from these bulk containers, into smaller units.
It is a A GM free Product.
Ingredients: Pasteurised Goats Fetta cheese, Sunflower oil, Locally grown Extra Virgin Olive Oil,   Roasted Garlic, herbs and seasonings-non animal rennet and cultures.
 
Store at 5 degrees-CELCIUS
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
SERVING SIZE 60gm   SERVINGS PER PACK 5
AVERAGE                                   PER 10GM                                      PER100GM
ENERGY                                      104kj                                                1038kj
PROTEIN                                    1-GM                                                  10.3GM
FAT TOTAL                                  1.9GM                                               19GM
-saturated                                    1.3GM                                              13.3GM
CARBOHYDRATE
TOTAL                                            0.9GM                                                9.4GM
SUGARS                                         0.2GM                                                1.9GM
SODIUM                                         11MG                                                 111MG: Jannei Marinated Goat’s Milk Cheese has been added to our website shop-

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NEW LABEL AT THE BACK OF THE GLASS – RAW GOAT MILK AND RAW KEFIR -BOTTLES!

GLASS MILK BOTTLES- JANNEI RAW GOAT MILK UPGRADE

Hi everyone❤❤👍(❁´◡`❁)

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Glass Bottles –

Raw milk in glass has been popular and the bottles are great -but it seems by LAW we have to say on the label if the bottle will NOT freeze. Because this is a new offer, we got the best generic bottles that suit our raw milk labels- But they do not distinguish this packaging requirement – so until we add the notes to the label, we will use a sticker on the back.

We were going to throw our hands up and take the glass off the web site – no thanks to one trying customer – I ask do you freeze anything in glass?  But we rose above it with a prayer and an injection of positivity. Luckily, I was a graphic designer in a past life – even though I would like a life and not spend Friday doing labels – BUT good always come s from any trial if one looks for it and stays positive. God is in Control!🙌

Thanks to our supportive customers-

We wouldn’t operate without our customers support and as said to not so great customer, we can only please our customers as best we can within limits. We can only do what we can do as a small farm produce business. BUT- Why shoot ourselves in the foot because of this so supply will resume!! 👍😊👏✨

Deliveries–

Raw milk and other Jannei products are packed and sent down to Sydney every Tuesday to be freighted to customers. All year!  NOW with freight, petrol and wages all adding on costs- the freight has jumped through the roof in some areas- Sorry to Central and South coats AND interstate!

Upside – we can send bulk in summer.

Customers getting together –

We are trying to get customers to link up with a shop or a health practitioner and split the freight. Five boxes to one location for the same price – $95 to $155.00 it can now cost to freight further afield. We may need to go back to the old systems of creating mini- co-op communities. Getting together to get healthy farm produce and sharing the freight together. Five people could receive there box for the same cost. It has to be one location.

Thanks again for your support we would love your feedback on any of the above things and ideas. Jan and Neil JANNEI GOAT DAIRY👌

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Variation in packaging for Jannei Raw Goat’s Milk

Exciting news, we have added raw goat’s milk packed in 1 litre glass bottles to our product list this week. Customers can order 3 to 6 units packed in glass. Due to the logistics of picking up glass packaging however- the glass bottles may run out from time to time. We pick up glass packaging every two months. This is also a trial run option to see if we can handle the extra work this entails. Glass is heavier and breakable. Sadly if it proves unviable we will have to remove the option.

Bad news is this week was the first trial run, and it seems everyone liked it as we sold out of our glass bottles. Ho Hum refer to above! But good news is it won’t be 2 months before we replenish our supply- maybe a few weeks.

Remember, on balance the plastic bottles are recyclable and can be recycled to create other products.
We love to please our customers and that is why we provide a very unique product. There is lots to navigate around in a small farm business. Our biggest aim is to give you natural healthy products with no preservatives and plenty of healthy probiotics that work in the gut immediately. We call it real food.

Thank you everyone for your support. We will try to keep some supply of glass available. PS -6 raw milk is the maximum we can pack in our current boxes- we have limited each day to 6 available as people have ordered more. Check each day to get your order in. Thank you.
Janette and Neil- Jannei

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SYDNEY CHEESE AWARDS October 9, 2010 Gold Medal Winners

In recent news all three of our White mold cheese have now won a Gold at a cheese show! Jannei’s Miette took out he gold in Category 3 – Fresh Curd Matured at the Sydney Cheese Awards.

here’s a link to the website

Also our Bent Back Chèvre, Prairie Cream and Buche Noir all received gold at Melbourne Cheese Show.

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A visit to Jannei Goat dairy

WE’RE LATE. It’s a grey rainy day in November as we head west along the Great Western Highway past Lithgow heading for Jannei Goat Dairy at Lidsdale. However all is well when we do eventually arrive at Jannei, as Neil and Janette Watson are too busy packing up their cheeses for the following day’s Pyrmont Growers Market in Sydney to be concerned about our late arrival.
The Watsons started their cheese making here in 1995 when Neil decided he wanted a change from teaching agricultural science at a school in Portland. When looking for an alternative income, it’s not surprising that Neil would be thinking milk. He grew up on a dairy farm in that wonderful, rain-blessed dairying country around Wauchope on the NSW central coast.
Initially they intended to sell their fresh goat milk into the Sydney market but found this was not profitable in the volumes they could produce. So Janette supported Neil’s experiments with cheese making.
He started with hard cheeses in 1996, but soon found that what his customers in Sydney really wanted was fresh curd. Just about the only goat curd available in Sydney at the time was coming from Gabriel Kervella in Western Australia. So local chefs and retailers were delighted to have a truly local product. From this base product, Neil has added many award winning cheeses such as their Bent Back Chev, Buche noir and Chevrotin.
Cheese making takes place six days a week and while Neil is busy with the curd, Janette uses her background in advertising and design to market their cheeses to an ever-increasing number of customers.
Jannei milks around eighty goats (mostly Saanen) from a herd of one hundred producing about 130kg of cheese a week. Ninety percent of this is delivered weekly into the Sydney market where Simon Johnson is the main distributor.
Diet for the goats is very important to Neil who goes to great lengths to ensure that every goat in the herd is in peak condition, thus ensuring the highest quality milk for cheese making.
In June 2007 Neil had major heart surgery. During his hospitalisation and subsequent recovery Janette took responsibility for all aspects of the business, including the cheese making. So now they often work together in the cheese making room. The weekly trips Janette makes to the Growers Markets she says are hard work. With the long travel time, some days are barely profitable. Jannette says she looks past the sales and considers it important to be there, as it is their only regular marketing exercise.
If you would like to visit the dairy for a tasting or purchases of their cheese, phone first to check that either Neil or Janette are available. Blessed are the cheese makers.

article by – RF. Russell Smith, www.regionalfood.com.au