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Business World |
November 2014
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Founded by Bruce and Sharon Vandenberg
in 1989, the couple was looking for a busi-
ness opportunity that would allow both of
them to spend more time working from their
own home.
Sharon who has a diploma in food service
and Bruce inAgricultural Business combined
their skills and passion to start a goatherd
and cheese plant. Their first goats were pur-
chased in 1987 and the cheese plant was built
in the summer of 1989. Sharon took cheese
making and dairy courses at a local university
while Bruce invested in Dutch cheese mak-
ing equipment, allowing them to produce
their first batch of cheese later that year.
By 1991 the herd numbered around 130 ani-