Main Street Cheese, LLC
Working to Liberate Main Street from Wall Street through Local, Artisan Cheeses.
Our Mission
Main Street Cheese, LLC is a small-scale, woman-owned honor-system shop primarily selling fresh local goat cheeses and meats. The shop also occasionally carries seasonal products from other local farmers and food businesses.
Main Street Cheese, LLC is inspired by a devotion to artisanal production and a conviction that local, sustainable agriculture can help to usher in a new, life-centered, generative economy through consumer and citizen action.
We welcome people to visit the goats in the back as well as the community garden further in the back.
Our Vision
Our vision at Main Street Cheese since its initial conception has been to liberate Main Street from Wall Street through local artisan cheeses! This vision, both bold and humble, is rooted in a conviction that food connects us with many vital parts of our lives, from ecology to justice, to the political economy, to one another, to other species, and that by embedding ourselves in place in sustainable ways, each of these dimensions can become more vital. Vibrant and lively local economies with local agriculture at the center can help usher in a new generative economy and bid farewell to outdated economic systems. For example, we think that food should be a human right, not a commodity.
As we work to renew “Main Street,” we are cognizant of how “Wall Street” has failed us. Corporate agribusiness should not be allowed to unduly influence agricultural policy. In our view, agriculture should not be part of the World Trade Organization, nor should food policy be determined by international trade policies, but should be within the purview of domestic governments. Rather than privileging an export-oriented approach through the globalization of agricultural policy, we could favor local production for local consumption. This would mitigate the far-ranging ecological and social costs of large-scale, industrial monoculture production for export.
Living Wages
We are working towards a living wage for all who work on the farm.
Food Justice
Food disparities should not fall along race and class lines, nor should our food system ignore the rights of mother earth.
Food Sovereignty
Food sovereignty, as coined by peasant producers in the global south, is the notion that people can and should have the power to determine food policy—on the local, regional, and national level (as opposed to global trade rules dictating policy).
Increased Local Self-Reliance and Food Security
The more food we produce locally, the more self-reliant our community becomes and the less dependent we are on food from far away, thus the more food secure.
34 Main Street
Hancock, NH
(603) 525-3300
mainstcheese@gmail.com