Michael was extremely patient, knowledgeable and professional. I left with the tools required to start making cheese at home. Interested in hearing about future classes with cheese varieties or next level course. Excellent experience.
1 day
1 day
Michael Paradise
$430 per person
Multi-person booking discount:
9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Castlemaine
2026
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What you learn: The class will teach you what you need to know to make excellent aged cheese at home.
Location: Our purpose-built small-scale artisan cheese training facility, The Cheese School, Castlemaine.
Our experienced cheesemaker & trainer, Michael Paradise, will be your teacher for the day. Michael is a senior cheesemaker at Long Paddock Cheese, and a great teacher. For those who haven’t yet met him, you’ll soon be firm friends!
This is a very hands-on course. You will spend your day mainly in The Cheese School (classroom and training room), with a visit to our Long Paddock Cheese fromagerie. You will learn heaps, as well as taste a lot of cheese!
Saturday 9.00am to 4pm: A short classroom session covering the basics of cheesemaking, then head into the make room to make your first cheese!
Saturday 4.00pm to 6pm: Finish the day with a cheese platter and glass of wine/beer.
Perfect for those who want to learn the basics of the art of cultured cheesemaking, Beyond Home Cheesemaking is a structured hands-on workshop, focusing on what is required to make great artisan cheese at home and beyond.
Led by our experienced cheesemaker and educator Michael Paradise, ‘Beyond Home Cheesemaking’ will provide you with the practical tools needed to make small-scale artisanal cheese successfully, while keeping it fun for everyone, know matter what age!
There are no prerequisites for this course, and anyone can participate. The course offers a whole-system perspective on artisan cheesemaking:
Michael was extremely patient, knowledgeable and professional. I left with the tools required to start making cheese at home. Interested in hearing about future classes with cheese varieties or next level course. Excellent experience.
Michael was excellent 👏 Answering soooo many questions in a way we could understand without getting too technical. His love of cheesemaking and his job in general is evident by his enthusiasm to share his knowledge. A huge thank you for a very enjoyable day.
Michael was very professional and made it very easy to understand. Thank you for a wonderful day. Would love to come back and do another class and learn a different cheese. Would love to do a 2-day class.
Michael was extremely patient, knowledgeable and professional. I left with the tools required to start making cheese at home. Excellent experience.
It was a wonderful experience. I am very pleased to have chosen a 2-day course as that gave time to consolidate what we were learning. Michael is an excellent teacher/trainer.
I participated in a one-day beginner’s cheesemaking course. It was simply fabulous. Michael Paradise, our teacher, is extremely knowledgeable and very generous with his teaching. It is an intense and quite tiring day, which provides excellent value, but one needs to be prepared for a lot of info to process and quite a lot of time on your feet. We made an impressive variety of cheeses and left with the fruits of our labour – so delicious! This course and the Long Paddock Cheese School warrants a strong recommendation – such a great experience.
I did the 1-day cheesemaking at home class with instructor Michael. I didn’t have any experience making cheese prior but Michael explained everything to us and gave lots of tips and suggestions of things we could do at home with minimal equipment. We ended up taking home 5-6 dairy products each, including 1kg of Taleggio style cheese with instructions how to cure it. Overall it was a really fun and informative day. I’m excited to try all the cheese and make some more as well.
So much cheese, so much knowledge. Such a big world of cheese opened up to me by the very passionate and knowledgeable Michael.
Our teacher Michael was very knowledgeable and shared his experience working with producing and ageing cheeses. We were provided with delicious breakfast and lunch, including cheeses and local products, and finished the day with wine and cheese session at the nearby winery. A highlight for me was a tour of the fromagerie and the cheese ageing rooms. A very impressive company producing some beautiful cheeses you can purchase in the little shop on site. Class sizes are limited to 8 so there is a lot of opportunity to ask questions on the day after the course. Really wonderful people, and very good value for money.
Thoroughly enjoyable 2 day course. Lots of fun, great people and Michael was excellent. We came home very tired, but had a huge amount of cheese that we had made!!! Awesome.


$430 per person. Multi-person discounts apply.
For bookings of 5+ people, please get in touch. If your preferred dates are unavailable, please contact us. We may be able to assist.