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Be sure to pick up this month’s issue of Charleston’s Art Mag to see the Culinary Artist Profile on Farrah and Giddy Goat.
Culinary Artist Profile: The Giddy Goat
words: Jessica Dennis
Farrah Hoffmire isn’t your typical Southern belle who’s afraid to get her hands dirty. She’s an artist, a film producer, and now a goat-cheese maker. Her local, handmade, Giddy Goat Cheese has already caught the eye of the finest chefs and stores in the region.
Having grown up on a small farm in Summerville, SC, Hoffmire is well acquainted with the agrarian lifestyle and has always kept it close to her heart. In 2005, she and her husband Mitchell began their own philanthropic media company called Organic Process Productions which focuses on art and media projects, particularly things that highlight local food and cultural heritage in South Carolina.
Though OPP is still going strong, Hoffmire wanted to do more hands on work. She yearned for a farm of her own and began thinking about what she could produce herself. In 2009, she reached out to strong pastoral figures, Sidi and Louise Limehouse (owners of local organic Rosebank Farms) and helped them launch their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Amid this process, her new friends taught her how to make fresh goat cheese from goat’s milk and provided her with kitchen space to do it. True to her roots, she quickly took to the process and began making and selling it herself. “Basically people started asking for it, I kept making and improving it, and people kept buying it. We were thrilled”, she says.
And buy it they did. Giddy Goat Cheese has been sought after and sold to many of Charleston’s best restaurants, grocery stores, and markets. Giddy Goat Cheese comes in four flavors: Pure (salt-free), Cracked Pepper and Sea Salt, Pimiento, and Crystallized Ginger.
When asked how she manages all of her interests so efficiently, Hoffmire humbly jokes about how much time there is in a day when your whole life is your work. She manages Giddy Goat Cheese during the day, then paints or edits video at night.
“Giddy Goat is a great start, but only the beginning,” she says. She has also recently launched a healthy handcrafted whey soda using the nutrient rich by-product whey from the cheese making process. We can only imagine what’s she’s got in store for us next!
Farrah Hoffmire
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