Faces of Massachusetts Agriculture

Peter and Elizabeth Mulholland

Valley View Farm, Topsfield

Peter and Elizabeth Mulholland, started Valley View Cheese in 1998 on Elizabeth’s family farm. The name Valley View was given to the farm in the early 20th century when previous owners transformed an 1830s farmhouse into a “gentlemen’s” summer home. Today View Farm survives as the only dairy in Topsfield and the only cheese producer in Essex County. The Mulhollands’s handcraft farmstead goat milk and artisanal cow milk cheeses for fine food restaurants and groceries and now retail sale. With their small herd of Anglo-Nubian goats, they take pride in their products and their work in preserving the rural scenery, small town atmosphere and farming way of life into the 21st century.They also have chickens, turkeys, and bees. www.valleyviewcheese.com.