The Cheese Ark

The Cheese Ark The Cheese Ark gathers rare cheese that are on the brink of being phased out by time and progress.
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More than just artisanal, these are cheese that will soon be gone. So come down to The Cheese Ark and taste these rare authentic cheese for yourself.

06/09/2026

I’m glad you’re enjoying my time spent with the goat as much as I did. It was definitely one of the more precious days out with them. I hope this video answers some of the questions you had for me.

05/09/2026

Of course when you share a rock with a goat and just by being there with it, there’s plenty to observe.

I’m so glad that it’s quiet up there in the mountains and you can hear its breathing and sighs and chewing really well. None of what you hear is from me at all.

It’s an intimate couple of minutes with a goat. And you get to see how it ruminates, which is quite cute to see how it actually happens. And thankful it let me get this up close that I could capture it and show you the things I see.

Put the sound on if you can!

04/09/2026

I think one of the reasons why I like shepherding is the sheer amount of time spent observing the animals.

In the hours spent together, at some point, they’ll come to trust more and more. With goats, it’s even more rewarding because they are highly sentient to human emotions. I’ve had more than enough rough days and incidences to know that this is absolutely true. And when a connection is made, the feeling is magical. And I sure hope it is mutual.

Hours spent together also means there’s opportunity to interact individually and being right next to them, not chasing or driving them around but just being and sharing a moment together.

These, of course, are fleeting and therefore precious. I hope you get a sense of it from these videos 😊.

28/08/2026

Hello Everyone!

As promised, I’m going to show you where the goats and cows actually are in the earlier post!

I’m show you where they are and then zoom out again so you can try and see if you can spot them from afar.

It’s a little safari-like 😂. Hope you have fun looking!

23/08/2026

I followed the goats out right after milking to see where they roam to graze.

Up on the alps it’s a very different feeding pattern. Since there are effectively no trees or shrubs at 2300m subalpine level, it’s interesting to see what they’d eat in the absence of leaves.

We were out from 8am till about 2pm. This is a snippet of my morning out.

Try and see if you can spot the goats and the cows from afar at the end of the video. That’s the kind of distance we have to get used to spotting the animals. It’s challenging but worth a try. They are there, I promise you.

21/08/2026

Giving you a minute’s worth of goat grazing and agility. It’s therapeutic to watch, I promise.

In fact, to call it grazing is technically wrong. Goats are browsers and what you see in this video is a great way to explain it. Unlike sheep and cows who graze, goats will eat leaves and woody shrubs above ground.

This difference alone gives them a more delicate digestive system than sheep or cows. By not grazing at ground level, they are less immune to parasites in the soil. It always makes me think about 垃圾吃，垃圾大 😂. They both share the same logic.

It’s always fun to watch them get acrobatic in getting to the leaves. A lot of times, they will also work as a team. When someone has managed to pull a branch down, the rest will come forward and feast together, thereby holding the branch down for everyone - teamwork. You would think that it’s every goat for himself, hoarding a branch with juicy leaves and headbutting everyone else out of the way but no.

Sure, goats are social with their flocking instinct i.e. the way they move and stay together and how they communicate i.e if one is separated from the herd, you’ll hear it for sure. But how do they know they have to work together for food? I always wonder. 

Anyways, I hope you’ll enjoy this one.

21/08/2026

Hello Everyone!

I’m back working with the goats in Savoie this week and it was good to be able to take them out to graze, especially since the weather was lovely.

This is another compressed minute and a half of my life as a shepherd, which essentially is about taking animals out to graze. But as you have seen by now, although the definition remains the same, each day on the job looks very different and that’s part of the appeal, at least to me 😂.

And if this snippet brings you some sort of joy to watch, that makes me happy too.

Happy Weekend ahead, Everyone! ❤️

16/08/2026

It’s obvious that I love donkeys but here’s the reason why I’d like to ditch them sometimes. Hope you’re enjoying a few minutes of my life. ❤️

15/08/2026

Donkey tales.

IG wants videos under 3mins but since many of you keep asking me what I do during the day, I decided to not compress everything to the point where you have no idea how long it takes for me to do what I do.

A lot of my time is spent looking for animals in the forest - sheep, cows, donkeys, horses. As the forest is large, even with the help of bells, it’s not easy trying to locate them. Sometimes I can’t hear them at all, and other times because of the way sound reverbs, they are not where I think they are.

All in all, we spent an hour finding the donkeys, haltering them and getting them back to the farm. Part of the fun is looking and enjoying the process, which is counter to the usual habit of getting things done fast. And that’s when I really feel I’m working at Nature’s pace.

Hope you enjoy the next few minutes walking through the forest with me.

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