About

Founded in 2006 by Lisa Jacobs, Jacobs Creamery is nestled in the midst of 150 acres of grassy farmland in idyllic Doty, Washington, where a hard-working crew of Jersey cows and sheep graze to their hearts’ content on lush pastures and fresh clover, producing the rich, creamy milk that goes into each delicious Jacobs Creamery product.   

An Irish lass who grew up in Dublin knowing the gustatory joys of spreading hand-churned butter on fresh scones and eating wedges of creamy Cashel Blue as an after-school snack, Lisa made the decision to flee both an illustrious career in the technology field and law school to pursue her true passion of artisan cheesemaking at the tender age of 23. She traded her Jimmy Choos and Chanel for rubber boots and overalls, turned her big black law dictionary into a makeshift cheese press, threw herself into studying cultures and pasteurization with the same enthusiasm she’d once reserved for spreadsheets and flowcharts, moved from her stylish centrally-heated city apartment into a drafty circa-1909 farmhouse with no kitchen plugs, and never looked back.
Driven by her love of fine cheese and drawn to the craft’s intoxicating meld of science, chemistry, artistry and plain old hard work, Lisa taught herself how to make all her favorite fresh and aged cheeses. Along the way, she sought mentorship from some of the country’s best and brightest cheese minds--while researching her ideal feta, she traveled to an ancient Greek monastery renowned for their feta cheese to be instructed by the nuns themselves. 

On any given day, Lisa can be found in her cheese room singing along to the warbling strains of Edith Piaf while she hand scoops fresh ricotta into the wee hours of the morning, out in the hen house feeding her peckish brood cheese curd and carrot tops and packaging their intensely-flavorful eggs in pink cartons, handing out samples of fromage blanc to appreciative passerby at the farmers’ markets, teaching cheese-making classes at a local kitchen shop, or educating people about the wonders of artisan cheese at various Pacific Northwest cheese festivals.

For more information about Jacobs Creamery cheeses and where to find our products, please see our Products and Where To Find Us pages. You can also click here to subscribe to Lisa’s Cheesie Newsie and receive weekly updates of the always-interesting life and adventures of a sassy young cheesemaker.