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Anna Landmark has been making cheese since 2014 and obtained a butter-making license in 2022. Since 2023, she has been making butter in a small plant inside Seven Acre Dairy Company in Paoli, which has become a part owner of Landmark Creamery, Landmark's cheese and butter company. The partnership will help Seven Acre expand its food offerings and help Landmark grow her cheese and butter production.
Visitors gather in Landmark Creamery’s cafe and retail space, now located inside Seven Acre Dairy Company in Paoli. Landmark will use the former retail and cafe space it had occupied down the road since 2017 for classes, tastings and events, and offer tours of its cheese caves.
Farmhouse butter made by Anna Landmark is now sold under both the Landmark Creamery and Seven Acre Dairy Co. labels.
The Creamery Room, one of eight rooms and suites inside The Inn at Seven Acre, features an 8-foot circular window where a milk tank once stood. All of the rooms reflect the history of the property, a former cheese and butter plant that was founded in the late 1800s.
A 139-pound batch of freshly churned butter awaits packaging at Landmark Creamery’s butter plant inside Seven Acre Dairy Co., which is all housed in a former Swiss cheese and butter plant along the Sugar River in Paoli. Decades ago, this elevated room was used to store cream, which was then gravity-fed to churns below in what is now Landmark's cafe and retail space.
Anna Thomas Bates inspects a wheel of Landmark Creamery's Sweet Annie, a gouda-style cheese, from one of the company's cheese caves in Paoli in this image from 2022. After Thomas Bates left the business in 2024, Seven Acre became part owner of Landmark. The move will help expand food offerings at Seven Acre and help Anna Landmark expand her cheese and butter production.
Anna Landmark locks down the cover of a butter churn in the small butter plant located adjacent to the Landmark Creamery & Cafe inside Seven Acre Dairy Co.
Landmark Creamery co-founder Anna Landmark, left, and employee LeAnn Powers remove a batch of butter from a churn at the company’s butter production facility at Seven Acre Dairy Co. in Paoli.
Photos: Landmark Creamery making butter inside Seven Acre Dairy Co.
Landmark Creamery co-founder Anna Landmark, left, and employee LeAnn Powers remove a batch of butter from a churn at the company’s butter production facility at Seven Acre Dairy Co. in Paoli.
Anna Landmark is seen here through a window of her small butter plant located inside Seven Acre Dairy Co. in Paoli.
Farmhouse butter is displayed on shelves of a cooler at the Landmark Creamery & Cafe, located inside Seven Acre Dairy Co. in Paoli. The butter comes in one-pound rolls and half-pound formed blocks and are made in a small butter plant adjacent to the cafe.
Anna Landmark carries buckets of sweet cream from a pasteurizer at the Landmark Creamery's butter production facility at Seven Acre Dairy Co. in Paoli. Landmark makes about 140 pound of butter two to three times a week.
Farmhouse butter made by Anna Landmark is now sold under both the Landmark Creamery and Seven Acre Dairy Co. labels.
Anna Landmark has been making cheese since 2014 and obtained a butter-making license in 2022. Since 2023, she has been making butter in a small plant inside Seven Acre Dairy Company in Paoli, which has become a part owner of Landmark Creamery, Landmark's cheese and butter company. The partnership will help Seven Acre expand its food offerings and help Landmark grow her cheese and butter production.
Farmhouse butter made by Landmark Creamery shares a cooler in the creamery's cafe, located inside the Seven Acre Dairy Co. in Paoli.
LeAnn Powers, left, and Anna Landmark toil away in Landmark Creamery's small butter plant, adjacent to the creamery's cafe inside Seven Acre Dairy in Paoli.
A 139-pound batch of freshly churned butter awaits packaging at Landmark Creamery’s butter plant inside Seven Acre Dairy Co., which is all housed in a former Swiss cheese and butter plant along the Sugar River in Paoli. Decades ago, this elevated room was used to store cream, which was then gravity-fed to churns below in what is now Landmark's cafe and retail space.
Visitors gather in Landmark Creamery’s cafe and retail space, now located inside Seven Acre Dairy Company in Paoli. Landmark will use the former retail and cafe space it had occupied down the road since 2017 for classes, tastings and events, and offer tours of its cheese caves.
Anna Landmark locks down the cover of a butter churn in the small butter plant located adjacent to the Landmark Creamery & Cafe inside Seven Acre Dairy Co.
Barry Adams covers regional news for the Wisconsin State Journal. Send him ideas for On Wisconsin at 608-252-6148 or by email at badams@madison.com.
