Farm Tours with Central Coast Food Tours

Farm Tours with Central Coast Food Tours is always a good time.

We offer these as a private, personal tour created just for your group. My favorite farm we’ve spent time at recently is Stepladder Farm. Stepladder Farm is located in the beautiful hills of Cambria and is a multi-generational farm. While the farm raises goats and makes goat cheese, they also work with CalPoly to procure milk for their cow’s milk Cheeses.

Visiting the Farm

Farm Tours at Stepladder farm are best scheduled once the baby goats (the “kids”) are born.

This usually happens around April. This event kicks off the mom’s milk production which lasts usually through September or October. Taking one of our tours to the farm just after the kids are born affords you an opportunity to frolic with the babies. The kids are really too cute, and most curious. Any time spent with these adorable creatures is a treat for children as well as adults.

As Stepladder Farm gears up for their goat cheese production, you’ll get a chance to see how the milking operation works. This is not a large farm. They keep less than 100 female goats for milking. Still, seeing what operating a goat farm and creamery involves is quite an eye opener. On the tour you’ll see how the goats are milked, learn about all the sanitary precautions taken to safeguard the health safety of the cheese, and best of all… taste the cheese! You’ll be given the opportunity to also taste their cow’s milk cheese, and purchase any of the cheese you taste.

Our Farm Tours include everything from artisanal olive oil farms, to vegetable and fruit farms to ranches. Call us to arrange a full day of adventure for you!

Best,

Laura