Middlebury's Champlain Valley Creamery Marks 20 Years With a Milestone Cheese

Middlebury's Champlain Valley Creamery Marks 20 Years With a Milestone Cheese

Cheesemaker Carleton Yoder gets up early, but "I'm not milking," he said with a grin through his signature bushy salt-and-pepper beard. As he drove to Cornwall's Severy Farm for milk pickup, just before 7 a.m., sunrise blushed the sky pink. Unlike most small cheesemakers in Vermont, Yoder's Champlain Valley Creamery is not a farmstead operation — one that uses milk from the cheesemaker's own herd or flock. "I never wanted to be a farmer," Yoder …