Bravo Farms Cheese Factory-Traver, California

Bravo Farms began in 1979 as a small dairy farm in Visalia, California. Owned by Bill Boersma and his wife Pat, they ran the dairy several years before deciding to evolve into farmstead cheesemakers

Bravo Farms began in 1979 as a small dairy farm in Visalia, California.  Owned by Bill Boersma and his wife Pat, they ran the dairy several years before deciding to evolve into farmstead cheesemakers.  This was not an easy task, being the first farmstead cheesemakers in the San Joaquin Valley was a challenging endeavor.  Yet over time, they developed a wonderful recipe for a farmhouse cheddar, which is known as one of the best in the world.  Recently Bill and Pat have partnered with a young artisan cheesemaker, Jonathan Van Ryn, who studied cheesemaking at California Polytechnic University.  Jonathan was building a small cheese factory to make his own varieties of cheese, but after meeting with the Boersma's, they came up with a plan to form a partnership in Bravo Farms.  They could now make enough cheese to meet the demand.  Bravo Farms now makes several varieties of cheese and continues to produce some of the   best cheese worldwide.

www.bravofarms.com

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