Forsyth location cheese feature: Santa Gadea Red Label

Forsyth location cheese feature: Santa Gadea Red Label

Organic Goat Cheese from Spain
Santa Gadea Red Label Organic Goat Cheese
Santa Gadea Red Label Medium is a bloomy, enzyme-coagulation organic cheese. At the beginning of its maturing time, once wrapped, it has a tender texture. As humidity and bacteria develop in the cheese, a process that takes place in our caves, Red Label turns creamier and creamier.

Quality cheese made with the environment in mind!
An organic farmstead goat cheese, a sustainable model

Santa Gadea is a farm hidden among ridges and gullies in Burgos, a Northern province of Spain. With an extension of 800Ha, this misty valley has seen battles waged on horseback and knights force kings to swear oaths, for it was legendary knight “El Cid Campeador” who made the King of Spain swear in the “Oath of Santa Gadea” that he hadn’t killed his brother. This happened many centuries ago.

In year 2013, these lands are home and give name to the finest organic goat cheese. Our small family business takes great care in feeding our 1200 goats just our organic crops, where no trace of GMOs or chemical fertilisers can be found. This is why, day after day, Santa Gadea’s cheese master is able to work with a rich-flavoured, own-production organic milk of excellent bacteriological quality that meets FDA standards, the highest in the world.

Santa Gadea is an eco-sustainable, comprehensive business, the nature of which is agricultural, livestock, dairy, industrial and forest. The future is today, and today Santa Gadea is at the forefront of an incipient revolution, where companies will acknowledge the value of human and natural resources alike within their productive cycles.

Our goats sleep inside a magnificent construction of French design (they are also French and we don’t want them to feel homesick). As difficult as it is being an organic flock, all illnesses have been eradicated, including CAEV, thanks to an ambitious health program.
Magnificent wooden barn for our goats at Santa Gadea

The workings of Santa Gadea are cyclic: we sow and harvest our farmlands (in absolute absence of chemical fertilizers and genetic alterations), with which we feed our goats. In turn, the goat’s manure is used as organic fertilizer on crops after being transformed into compost.

In Santa Gadea Farm, as well as producing organic goat cheese, we go for sustainability! Our philosophy is that of coexisting with Nature: we are Climate Positive, since we help sequester an important amount of CO2 from the atmosphere via:

• Reforestation. 120000 new trees (Pinus silvestres, Quercus ilex, Ilex aquifolium, Cherry and Walnut trees) have given back to the forest the woodlands that were stolen from it by the hand of man.

• EM Technology. It is used as a natural booster of anaerobic fermentation, mainly applied to the manure produced by our goats, which is transformed into rich compost. During this anaerobic process of fermentation, over 50% of CO2 emissions is saved, an amount that would otherwise be lost to the atmosphere.

• Energy. Santa Gadea has a wind farm built on its soil, and is owner of two photovoltaic panel parks (450kW). This power output exceeds the total input needed to run the farm.

Santa Gadea Farm makes organic goat cheese and has a negative carbon footprint: solar PV and wind energy!
Our family firm wants to restore the image of the small producer, for which it is necessary to embrace a new market philosophy where quality prevails over quantity.