Valley Ford Creamery

Valley Ford Cheese & Creamery is the storefront of a dairy family that has worked the land around this small Highway 1 village for more than a century. Karen Bianchi-Moreda's Northern Italian great-grandparents founded the ranch in 1918, and today it covers 640 acres. For decades the family's Jersey herd supplied milk to other creameries, including Bellwether Farms, until they began making their own cheese in 2008. The fifth generation now carries the work forward: Joe Moreda Jr. makes the cheese, and his brother Jim tends the herd. The café, market and cheese-aging room opened together in downtown Valley Ford, giving travelers on the coast road a place to taste the farm's wheels close to where they are made, at indoor tables, at barstools or on a dog-friendly patio.