Holiday Entertaining: A Cheeseboard Workshop with Alli Keyser-Marti, ACS CCP® & CCSE®

Name: Holiday Entertaining: A Cheeseboard Workshop with Alli Keyser-Marti, ACS CCP® & CCSE®
Start: 2025-12-06T11:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-12-06T13:00:00-08:00
Location: Gold Ridge Organic Farms

Schedule

Sat Dec 06 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Gold Ridge Organic Farms | Sebastopol, CA

Saturday, December 6 | 11 AM - 1 PM
Registration required
$105 per person
Join Gold Ridge Organic Farms' resident cheese expert, Alli Keyser-Marti for an intimate hands-on cheese board workshop! Explore how to create your own beautiful board, showcasing a wide array of flavors, textures, and colors. Learn how to incorporate a variety of edible flowers and fresh herbs, local honey, apple cider syrup, balsamic vinegar, EVOO, olives, artisan bread, crackers, and dips to accompany the best local cheeses made by artisan producers from Sonoma County and beyond.
All ingredients and materials included in ticket price. You'll get to take home your creation to share with friends and family - or enjoy right here at the farm!
With a culinary career beginning in her teenage years in West Sonoma County, Alli has worked for some of the finest restaurants and cheese shops in the region. She is an American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professional®, Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin Cheese State Scholar, California Artisan Cheese Guild Board Member, recently completed her Cheese Sensory Evaluator Certification, and is currently working on an apprenticeship with Applied Sensory for Olive Oil analysis. She was selected as a 2024 ACS Official Conference Cheese Monger and has volunteered at the World Cheese Awards in Viseu, Portugal and ACS Judging & Competition in Minnesota.
Alli has pursued her passion for cheese and food from her backyard in California to small farms all over France, rural Ohio, roadside stands in Sardinia, ferries in Croatia and beyond. She joined Gold Ridge Organic Farms in 2022 to further broaden her knowledge of specialty food through the world of olive oil. In addition to wrangling all things admin, she helps with farm tours, olive oil tastings, and hosts cheese board workshops. In her free time, you can find her walking around Sebastopol with her dog, Porter.