Celebrating National Cheese Day with Udderly Cool Creamery

Tomorrow is National Cheese Day! Over the past decade, one Georgia company has offered some of the highest-quality cheeses. The Farm Monitor‘s Damon Jones reports on how they are doing it with a bit of help from a local college.

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