Cheese Garden

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween from me and my murder mystery grazing table 🎃🐦‍⬛

10/11/2024

took some time away to visit the homeland of some of my favorite cheeses 🧀🇨🇭
I saw so many cows, sampled so many amazing cheeses, drooled over the charcuterie selection at every convenience store, and collected a whole list of fun facts that I can’t wait to share at future boarding school classes✨

09/03/2024

sharing this dreamy late summer graze before I let my brain officially switch to fall mode 🌞

08/03/2024

Brought Mr. Cheese Garden to Ladies Night at The Marmalade Lily 💐
Thank you to everyone who stopped by Cheese Garden’s booth last night! I had so much fun sharing my creations with you all.
(and shoutout to Greg for bringing along the cooler so I could make us a little mid event snack 😋)

07/18/2024

best part about making a wedding graze? definitely seeing the swoon-worthy professional shots after✨
📸: .anne.photography

06/16/2024

This weekend we pulled off not one, not two, but THREE wedding grazing tables 🙌 each spread was truly such a novel creation and I’m probably going to be sharing the content I got from these for weeks 😂

An extra special shoutout to my fiancé Greg (aka mr. cheese garden) for working alongside me these past three days. I typically arrange all of my tables as a solo act, but I absolutely could not have taken on this feat without him 🧀

05/24/2024

ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Cheese Garden is teaching a public Boarding School class hosted by the on June 4th 🌞 Available for purchase now at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/charcuterie-class-in-the-courtyard-tickets-887770223637?aff=oddtdtcreator

05/13/2024

got to create this colorful spring graze for the dreamiest wedding shower this past weekend and I have not stopped thinking about the crudité platter since🫛🌸

04/22/2024

I love myself a theme and when I heard about this couple’s vision for their housewarming party I was absolutely ecstatic to rise to the challenge of bringing it to life (and I also may have giggled a bit 😂)

04/09/2024

was I even in the path of totality if I didn’t make an eclipse board to commemorate it? 🌒🌑🌘

03/15/2024

This week Greg suggested I should go buy a fun new cheese and make us a board. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I was actually arranging our engagement board 💍 after I finished making this board, he followed me down to my fairy garden where I like to leave carefully arranged scraps of cheese on a leaf for the fae (or more accurately the squirrels 😂) and got down on one knee. And this cheese board that I thought would be just a fun, mid-week snack turned out to be the most special board I’ll ever make 😌 here’s to forever with my favorite person who I love even more than the most artisanal cheese 💓

03/07/2024

spring has sprung which means any charcuterie meat that can be turned into a flower will be 🌸

02/28/2024

it hits 70 degrees for one day in ohio and suddenly my brain has transitioned into full spring mode 🌸

02/14/2024

how many hearts can I work into one board? my favorite vday challenge 💕
on that note: happy valentine’s day everyone 🫶 go eat some cheese and tell someone you love them 🧀

01/24/2024

Cheese Garden’s new 2024 model for grazing tables is now LIVE✨ A couple big changes that I wanted to call out:
- I’ve done away with the tiers system. Instead of three tiers offering increasing bundles of add-ons by charging more per guest, those add-ons are now available a la carte for one base price.

- The price per person is now determined by grazing table size (mini, standard, and grand), along with a size based service fee to cover travel/labor costs. I decided to implement this after receiving increasing requests for small grazing displays. I wanted to find a fair way to price those without compromising decadence or hiking up the per head cost more than necessary for larger spreads.

I absolutely love having the space to let my creativity run wild arranging these grazing tables and am so grateful for another year of sharing these displays with you all 💓 I appreciate everyone who has booked so far and am looking forward to seeing what opportunities 2024 brings!

Upcoming event? Book a graze at https://www.thecheesegarden.com/grazing-tablescatering

01/23/2024

ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Cheese Garden will be teaching a public Galentine’s Day Boarding School class hosted by the city of Miamisburg Parks & Rec Dept on February 13th 💓 Tickets are priced per board, so arrange your charcuterie with a friend or create your own solo masterpiece. Available for purchase now at https://ohmiamisburgweb.myvscloud.com/webtrac/web/iteminfo.html?Module=AR&FMID=44315726

01/11/2024

Heading out on an international adventure 🌴 I will respond to all messages upon my return. Cheese Garden will be open for event bookings again February 1st 🧀

01/03/2024

ok I know we’re three days into January but can I get away with sharing just one more Christmas board 👀

12/30/2023

2023 has been by far Cheese Garden’s most exciting, challenging, and inspiring year yet and it’s always going to hold a special place in my heart. It’s the year I took the terrifying leap into taking my business full time. The year I took on more events than I ever thought I could pull off. It’s also the year I had to take a step back and close for a month right after going full time. The year I learned how to balance my needs as a person with the needs of my business. The year that I’m certain has paved the way for so many exciting years to come. I am so grateful and amazed by all the opportunities that came Cheese Garden’s way this past year and cannot say thank you enough for all the support I’ve received in so many forms. I’ll see you all in 2024 🫶

12/23/2023

no thoughts just this manchego swirling around a pear 🍐

12/22/2023

2023 ➡️ 2020

It’s wild what a difference three years can make. I took this picture by my Christmas tree last week after teaching a Boarding School class and the photo staging reminded me of a board I promoted during Cheese Garden’s first holiday season. I sold it as a seasonal special and news articles shared it and I must have made at least fifty of those boards that first year. Looking back now, I have so many notes for improving that board. I feel that way about a lot of boards I look back on from my early days of Cheese Garden. But at the time, people loved what I made. And if I had never created those early boards, I never could have grown into the artist I am today.

I can’t imagine there will ever be a day that my work feels ✨perfect✨ There’s always going to be a prosciutto ribbon I wish I would have fluffed more or a shade of berry I wish I had selected differently. But much like nature, art doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.

Thank you to everyone who has hyped my work in all its stages and thank you to everyone who has supported Cheese Garden this holiday season. I never would have imagined when I chaotically started this side hustle that I’d be closing out my fourth holiday season now as a ✨full-time✨ business owner. I am so grateful that I get to make a living sharing my love of art and cheese with so many people. I can’t wait to discover how Cheese Garden grows next 🧀🌿

12/20/2023

I think I’ve officially reached expert level at extracting seeds from a pomegranate after this holiday season
(fun fact: pomegranates are technically a berry!)

12/19/2023

Final blog post of the series out today and it’s all about my personal favorite part of the board making process - garnishing✨

From fresh herbs to edible gold flakes, this final step in the arranging process can really transform your board into a decadent masterpiece.

12/16/2023

to the cashier who asked me if I had big plans for the four bushels of rosemary I bought this week: I understand your concern and yes, I most certainly did 🎄 truly if I could make a Christmas grazing spread every day I would because wow this was such a dream to arrange 😌🧀

12/10/2023

theme: disco western sweet 16 🪩
guest count: 100 ✨
my excitement over having the perfect excuse to put a tiny cowboy hat on a wedge of cheese: absolutely immeasurable 🤠