Situated in the heart of the Oley Valley in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Valley Milkhouse is an artisan creamery handcrafting fresh, soft-ripened and aged cheeses in traditional European styles. Ribbon-winning camembert, cider-washed tomme and stilton style blue are among the favorites embraced by the regional food community and beyond.

Valley Milkhouse sources its milk from Kerith Brook Farm and Meadowview Jerseys, organic grass dairies.

The creamery and cheese shop are located at 92 Covered Bridge Road in Oley. We are open daily from 10 am to 6 pm year round where you can find locally cultivated mushrooms and pastured meats and eggs alongside our handmade cheeses.

We distribute our products via retail outlets in Philadelphia and throughout the Eastern U.S. We also participate in several farmers' markets and farm share programs. For details on where to find our cheeses, click here.

The cheesemakers

Stefanie Angstadt

Stefanie’s cheesemaking experience began at a home brew supply shop in Brooklyn when a small shelf hosting Ricki Carroll’s beginning cheesemaking kit caught her eye. A gallon of milk and a heap of squeeky curds later, her interest was sparked. After a few years of home cheesemaking, she was fortunate to land a job at Avalanche Cheese Company in Basalt, Colorado where she learned the traditional English technique of wrapping cheddar in lard-soaked bandaging, and her curiosity for the craft deepened.

In 2012, Stefanie returned home to her familiar roots in the Oley Valley and landed a job in vegetable production at Eckerton Hill Farm. Longing to return to the craft of cheesemaking, she shadowed regional cheesemakers and took a course at Penn State to deepen her understanding of the commercial production of cheese. In the spring of 2014, Stefanie came upon an old milkhouse of a retired dairy barn in the Oley Valley. She approached the farm's owners about the possibility of turning it into a creamery. With their encouragement, a little elbow grease and the help of several industrious friends, the space was renovated and the production launched in May 2014.

Brie Best

Brie Best is a cheesemaker and wholesale manager at VMH. Originally from Bucks County, Brie spent the better part of a decade working in cheese retail on the West Coast where she earned her CCP (Certified Cheese Professional designation through American Cheese Society) and became versed on the world’s cheeses. She grew curious about the production of cheese and landed a job at Cherry Valley in Washington where she and her crew made blue ribbon cultured butter and cheeses from the milk of a grassfed herd of Jerseys.

Brie returned to her familial roots in Bucks County in 2020 along with her husband, where they settled down to start their tiny adorable family. Brie knocked on our creamery door in the autumn of 2020, and the rest is history. Brie has honed her cheesemaking skills over the years, and has cultivated our wholesale relationships which have become an ever growing part of our small business. She’s our perpetual champion and sparkplug - she gives our workplace a jolt of energy whenever she steps foot inside, and her passion and hustle are unrelenting. If the quality of our cheese is the result of one thousand details, Brie’s been the one behind it.

The Farm

The milkhouse is located on one of the oldest farms in Oley, known as the Yoder-Cleaver homestead dating back to 1743. A long retired dairy farm, the estate is coming back to life thanks to the Stokes’ family’s efforts to restore the 18th century farmhouse, bank barn, several outbuildings, spring-fed stream, Manatawny Creek bed and surrounding acreage. The Stokes have partnered with other local farmers to cultivate the tillable land on the property in organic production. 

the Valley

The Oley Valley merits distinction for having some of the most fertile land in the Eastern United States and some of the cutest suspender-bearing children on bikes (not to mention Weaver’s best ever chocolate peanut butter cake).

The Oley Valley is a breadbasket of growers and food artisans supplying the surrounding communities and small cities throughout Eastern Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Travel here on a Saturday in June, and you are likely to see packs of cyclists cruising the wooded hills, horse-drawn buggies hugging the sides of the winding country roads, chickens running around two-centuries-old stone barns, laundry lines dangling a week’s worth of blue jeans in the breeze, and farm stands of all shapes and sizes displaying the season’s first strawberries and sugar snap peas.

We welcome visitors to stop by, bring a bottle of wine and a picnic blanket, grab a wedge of cheese, and enjoy the scenery of the Oley Valley.