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Cowgirl Creamery

Not documented — no head-count, dairy-partner count, or production-volume figure published.

Cader Lane Creamery, Petaluma, CA (Sonoma County); former retail shop in Point Reyes Station, CA closed Sept 2022, USA

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Quality assessment

Scale
Not documented — no head-count, dairy-partner count, or production-volume figure published.
Environmental
Composting/recycling program at the Petaluma creamery; company states energy efficiencies save ~80 tons CO2/year (self-reported, not third-party verified).
Transparency
Medium — public "Our Creamery"/"Our Mission" pages name the production location and founding story, but do not name the partner dairies supplying milk, and no certifier/registry link supports the repeated "organic" mission language.

Caveats

GREENWASHING FLAG: site mission copy uses "organic dairy," "sustainable agriculture" repeatedly as brand philosophy, but no USDA Organic seal, CCOF certificate number, or other registry entry was located on-site during this pass — treat as company philosophy, not a verified organic certification, unless a specific cert number surfaces. Note also the Point Reyes Station address some press/menus may cite is a closed retail shop (Sept 2022), not the production site (Petaluma).

Cheesemaker founded 1997 by Sue Conley and Peggy Smith; crafts cheese from milk supplied by unnamed partner dairies in Marin/Sonoma at its Cader Lane Creamery in Petaluma, CA. Best known for the triple-cream Mt Tam. The original Point Reyes Station retail shop closed Sept 2022; cheesemaking continues at Petaluma.

Products

Mt Tam triple creamRed HawkDevil's GulchPierce PointWagon WheelHop AlongTriple Cream Brie

Practices

milk sourced from named-region partner dairies (not individually named)on-site affinage/agingcomposting/recycling program at the creamery

Registry match

Matched to a public certification registry — a separate record, not a Terroir-verified supplier relationship.

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