Tassie cheese

Sunday challenge 123 - Celebrating cheese.

Tasmania is Australia’s oldest cheese-making state...

Cheesemaking in Australia is a distinctly European tradition, introduced with the first colonists' arrival. Generally speaking, Tasmania’s temperate climate, ample rainfall and rich soils are more similar to the northern European environments and landscapes from which many of those early settlers came. Therefore, Tasmania seems a natural fit for the food and farming traditions brought across by those early colonists. It makes sense, then, that a dairy industry soon boomed here and that Tasmania became the site of Australia’s first ever cheese factory: set up by the Van Diemen’s Land Company in 1820.
firstlighttravel.com.au/blog/cheeselovers-guide-to-tasmania