Chuck is perhaps the only Midwestern president of a cheese company with a serious dairy allergy. The Ohio native discovered Haystack in 2003, while searching for an alternate-milk cheese that didn’t exacerbate his allergies to the bovine variety (he succeeded–thanks Boulder Chevre!). Now he runs the joint.
Chuck’s background is in electric utilities, where he’s worked as an auditor, process improvement facilitator, IT project manager and account manager, and financial director. He actually loves that stuff. But he’s quick to add, “How can you not love goats?”
Chuck was Haystack’s operations, financial, and project manager from late 2006 to early 2009. In February 2009, he became President and General Manager. He still gets to play on the computer, and while his cheese consumption is limited by necessity, he’s a big fan of the Haystack culture (no pun intended). In his free time, Chuck enjoys hiking, peak-bagging 14ers, road biking, and playing his family of guitars.
Haystack Mountain is a dairy farm in Longmont, specializing in goat cheese. Their goats are local, stationed in Canon City at their partner dairy at the Skyline Correctional Facility. Prisoners milk thousands of goats, providing milk for Haystack’s 30 different cheeses.
Meet Haystack Mountain goat dairy and creamery, based in Colorado: Not only do they make delicious cheese, but they also have an amazing backstory
In Longmont, cheesemaker Jackie Chang is the force behind multiple medal-winning goat’s milk cheeses at Haystack Mountain Creamery.
