Local Dairy Company Supplies Goat Cheese Across the US[GALLERY] - WJON News

Posted: 05 May 2021 04:04 PM PDT

ROCKVILLE -- A local dairy producer is making a name for themselves across the country.

Stearns County is fourth in the nation for milk production, so it's no surprise that it is also home to a facility that supplies goat cheese to nearly all 50 states.

Stickney Hill Dairy in Rockville started on a farmstead with around 700 goats on County Road 48 in 1999. It was named after butter producer Truman Stickney who settled in Maine Prairie Township at what came to be known as Stickney Hill in the late 1800s.

Currently, the company operates out of a 20,000 square foot facility along Highway 23 and receives milk from over 30 Minnesota suppliers. That location opened in November 2016, and General Manager Glen Wood says it allowed for a lot of growth.

We were producing approximately 60,000 pounds a month of finished chevre goat cheese. Currently, we're producing anywhere from 300,000 to 370,000 pounds a month.

The current facility was built with future expansions in mind. Wood says they are looking to expand again already in the next year, effectively tripling in size and workforce.

That growth would also give the company an opportunity to explore other innovative products such as pizza cheese, cheese spreads, and cheddars.

Wood says the passion for the process and the product are what really set them apart.

That translates, I believe, all the way to the cheese make, and to the staff, and to our customers. I think that they're able to see the passion and everything that goes into it, that we care. You're not just a big conglomerate. You're not just a number.

Stickney Hill Dairy supplies some of the biggest names in the food industry and can be found in stores around the United States under various labels.

Byproducts from the cheese also get a second life, helping make other products including infant formula.

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Remember When, Chattanooga? Schroeder's Garden Center was a thriving store near the McCallie Avenue viaduct in the 1950s - Chattanooga Times Free Press

Posted: 16 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT

These men, dressed in 1950s work clothes, represent the staff of Schroeder's Garden Center, which was located near the McCallie Avenue viaduct in Chattanooga.

One of the vehicles in this 1959 photo is painted with the business's alliterative motto: "Good landscaping doesn't just happen, it's planned and planted properly."

In mid-century Chattanooga, the business, owned by entrepreneur William F. Schroeder, had two locations: the Duncan Avenue store near the viaduct (seen here) and a downtown store at 510 Market St. The Duncan Avenue address is now the site of the Montessori School.

The photo is taken from a collection of Chattanooga News-Free Press photographs kept at ChattanoogaHistory.com, a website devoted to legacy photos of the city and curated by history buff Sam Hall. John Goforth, a staff photographer for the newspaper in the 1950s, took the picture.

ChattanoogaHistory.com

Launched by history enthusiast Sam Hall in 2014, ChattanoogaHistory.com is maintained to present historical images in the highest resolution available.

If you have photo negatives, glass plate negatives, or original non-digital prints taken in the Chattanooga area, contact Sam Hall for information on how they may qualify to be digitized and preserved at no charge.

William F. Schroeder's 1979 obituary in the News-Free Press notes that he was a 1933 graduate of Tulane University, playing on the school's 1931 football team that competed in the Rose Bowl.

Schroeder spent 40 years as a Chattanooga business owner before his death, according to newspaper records. He was survived by his wife, Mary Wilbert Schroeder and three children. Schroeder and his wife were residents of Riverview at the time of his death. He was 67 years old.

In 1959, the year this photo was taken, ads in the newspaper's classifieds section noted that the Market Street location of Schroeder's operation stocked tropical fish, aquariums and supplies, in addition to gardening items.

Around Easter that year a big display advertisement in the newspaper for Schroeder's offered chicks for 25 cents each and rabbits for $2. Double carnation corsages were $1.49 and triple corsages were $1.98. Easter lilies sold for $3.49 and up.

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Contact Mark Kennedy at mkennedy@timesfreepress.com.

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