Sweet & Salty Farm is run by husband and wife team Andrew Morley and Laura Haverland with a lot of help from our wonderful team of people, and of course, the cows.
A little bit about us:
Andrew – head milkmaid, cheesemaker, animal tender and fence mender. Realized he might be destined for a life as a dairy farmer after eating his 3,000th grilled cheese sandwich. Descended from a long line of dairy farmers in County Mayo, Ireland who thought they’d escaped a life of twice a day milking when they got to America.
Laura – lead yogurt maker and organizer. Laura also takes charge of marketing duties, happy to hawk our own delicious farm products after spending her finest years in a cubicle marketing other people’s food.
Karen – Coming to us with a veterinary background and lots of horse sense, Karen shames us all with her incredible work ethic and boundless energy. An animal lover first and foremost, Karen gives the cows all the head rubs they need to produce the best tasting milk. Not to mention, she’s a cracker jack pig mover, power tool operator, tractor driver, yogurt cup filling machine operator, and cheesemaking assistant. We’ve yet to find anything that Karen can’t do!
Glenn – a cheesemaker trained with the best and brightest in Connecticut and Vermont, Glenn is a goat lover first and foremost. Lucky for us, she has agreed to work with cows’ milk for a while and teach us how to make delicious, gooey soft cheeses. Glenn gets more done in a few hours than most people get done in a week. We all try, and fail, to wrap cheeses as beautifully as she does.
Heather – With a background in the best professional bakeries in New England, and the stamina on her feet to prove it, Heather has whipped our creamery into shape since she joined our team a few years ago. Trained through a window in the early days of the pandemic, Heather does everything from milking to pasture work, and she touches nearly every piece of cheese and cheese rack that comes out of the creamery. We are lucky to have her!
Jasmin and Aoife – These two amazing women are the friendly faces you’ll see at the farmer’s market in Providence every Saturday. Ask them any question about cheese, farming and cooking, and they will have your answer or get it within minutes!
Meridith – Meridith joined us as a recent transplant to Little Compton and aren’t we fortunate she decided to join our team. After some time managing CSAs and working on vegetables farms a little further north, she’s a cow charmer, a cracker jack pasteurizer operator, and quickly learning all the ropes on the yogurt machine too.
Nick – Nick spends his weekdays at work and his “free time” helping at the farm on the weekends. His calming presence is always welcome in the parlor and in the pasture! And Andrew is thankful for a little male bonding time to escape his growing family of only females at home.