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Liz Blakely

Liz Blakely

Owner and artisan cheesemaker at Good Hands Creamery in Windsor, Vermont, and former physician assistant who traded medicine for cheesemaking.

Jul 31, 2026

1:49
Here's
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Liz.
1:52
Cheese making is something humans have been doing for 8,000 years.
1:58
Humans started making cheese pretty soon after they domesticated dairy animals.
2:02
So goats and sheep were probably the first dairy animals that humans milked, followed by cows a few thousand years later.
2:09
This development in humankind also coincided with humans going from nomadic to starting towns and cities and civilizations because they could confine their animals, keep them in one place and milk them.
2:25
Well, as soon as people started milking animals, you have milk.

14 MINS LATER

16:30
As you were getting your cheesemaking dreams off the ground, you encountered a lot of challenges and had to put things on hold and

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