Nickel City Cheese gains fast foothold: Sudbury's first cheese producer enjoys early success with fresh, in-house made product.

• Date: 01 January 2019
• Author: McKinley, Karen

Even Miss Muffet would approve of Nickel City Cheese's curds.

Sudbury's agriculture scene has gotten a lot more diverse with a cheese factory about 20 kilometres northeast of Sudbury on Regional Road 15 in the suburb of Azilda. The factory has been growing since it opened this past spring, offering made-fresh-daily cheddar curds and bricks in a variety of flavours.

Owner Nicole Paquin said demand for their fresh cheese has been steady since they first opened, often selling out of their signature flavoured curds.

It's been a long-term goal for her to establish a cheese factory in the region.

Before this, she worked in the office of the Ministry of the Attorney General for 14 years part-time and wanted something more.

"I remembered the fromage des villages from where I grew up in Quebec, and wanted to bring that here," she said. "We had fresh cheese on a regular basis."

She left her job, got...