As a small business owner, you need to be hungry and creative when you get thrown wrenches. The Redhead Creamery's owners, Alise & Lucas Sjostrom, were faced with the need to move cheese when restaurants and markets shut down with the 2020 pandemic. After some quick, creative thinking, they decided they could deliver cheese to their customers vs. expecting them to come to them. Bringing back the idea of the milkman, but instead with cheese. There is no downside to artisanal cheese delivered to your door!

Many of us never honestly know what we want to be when we grow up. The exact opposite is true for Alise. She knew she wanted to be part of her family's dairy, but not by milking cows with her parents. At the age of 16, she came home from a youth dairy event and shared with her parents she wanted to start a farmstead creamery. That announcement put the wheels into motion to form the Redhead Creamery. It's a unique creamery as they pump the milk directly from the dairy to create the cheese on-site. In regular times, it offers customers the opportunity to eat cheese, enjoy the beautiful countryside, and tour the dairy.

We dive into Alise's passion for lifelong learning by specializing in her education, connecting with fellow creameries, and building a network of other small food and beverage businesses in the area. When they bring customers to the dairy, they want them to have a list of places and companies to visit in the area.

While Alise and Lucas lead the creamery and drive the cheese van, their team is essential for their ability to harness the hunger needed to move their business forward! You need your people to be agile and adaptable. We dive into the need for these attributes at the creamery and in any team.

I can't wait for you to hear all Alise and Lucas have to share. You can find out more about them and order their delicious cheese from https://www.redheadcreamery.com/. You can also find them on Facebook and Instagram @redheadcreamery.