Saltless Sea Creamery

We’re at Rotary Square… and we have a stowaway! Swing by before noon to check out the new location, buy some great cheese, and say hi to our sloth friend (courtesy of Sami).

It’s a gorgeous day to buy local cheese (& more!) at .farmers.market! Get down here from 3-7 and enjoy the bounty.

Our cheese is made with milk from the happiest cows around! We’re so proud to partner with , a farm creamery dedicated to treating their animals well. Come taste a special cheese made with their exceptionally rich, grass-fed Jersey milk - we’ve got wedges of 1-YEAR AGED ParMichigano Reserve at today’s !

Milo takes cheese very seriously. This little guy won’t be at todays market, but cheese will! Swing by until noon today!

Market season has arrived! From now til October find us every Saturday from 7:30am-Noon, and .farmers.market Thursdays from 3-7pm! Today’s a gorgeous day to market - we’ll see you soon!

Fresh burrata, mozz, ricotta and more at today’s indoor market ! And remember, when it comes to cheese, sharing is caring. 😉

Late Bloomer is BACK!!! We’ve been aching to bring back this customer favorite, and Dave has worked hard to make this high-maintenance cheese thrive in our long-distance creamery setup. If you needed a reason to bundle up and enjoy a crisp morning at , this is it!

Remember that time you wished ParMichigano would come back because you're making fresh sauce with ripe local tomatoes?!?! THAT'S NOW!!! Swing by and snag a wedge of our most popular cheese!

We’ve got fresh burrata at today’s ! It’s gonna move fast on this gorgeous day, so come early!

White Gold cheese dip: because your local veggies deserve the best. 😉 Get both at today’s until noon! 📷:

Happy Market Day! We’re at until noon with local cave-aged cheese - see you soon!

We are back at market! We know you might have wondered where we’ve been, and here’s the deal:

It’s been a painful month of production challenges and personal struggles - the kind of time that makes you reevaluate everything, make hard choices, and decide what really matters. What really matters to us is our family, and serving our community with our skills & resources. For the last few years that’s meant trying to stand up a business to support our family.

Unfortunately, with limited time and resources, we’ve been stuck in an extended start-up mode that’s seriously overstretched our emotional & financial capacity. Our dedication to the business has put too much strain on our family, especially this past year as we’ve experienced delays to our facility buildout. We need to adjust our family-business imbalance.

What does that mean for the business? We’re here for the long haul, but the meantime will see changes. We’re down a car (again), so weekday markets like Elk Rapids are not feasible given our family’s needs. We’re going to miss the community of customers & vendors we’ve built there and will return next summer.

We may need to reduce or even pause our production schedule until we have an on-site facility. With a single car and an hour-long commute to Falmouth, we can’t fit 12-14 hour cheesemaking days in during the week, and it’s important for us to try to protect the little time we have together as a family on the weekends.

Please know that we want to keep this business going. We love the work and we love the community connections it’s created. We’re proud of what we’ve built, and see so much potential in where we can go. We just can’t continue operating in a way that puts the well-being of our family at risk. If you’ve read this far, thank you. Thank you for caring enough to hear our story, and for allowing us to share the messy human experience of building a business from scratch. We appreciate you more than you know.

Joy & Dave
Co-Founders, Co-Parents & Co-Dreamers

We’re at the first market of the season from 8-noon! Come say hi to Dave and Chief Executive Sampler, Milo!

Cheese friends are the best friends. We love our customers! ❤️

Happy ! It's a great weekend to go out and grab a locally-made wedge.



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Cloudy winter days need cheese. Come by from 10-2 for ParMichigano, Riveter, White Gold, and Ricotta Salata!

Our apologies for having to leave early yesterday - we had to rush our 2-year-old to the ER for a 107(!!!) degree fever and labored breathing. We’re back home with an RSV diagnosis and doing ok but send us as many “get better” vibes as possible - poor little guy is miserable. ❤️

Still Life with Parmesan, 2022. Sometimes the simplest moments are the most beautiful. Come enjoy the fruits of our labor at the final outdoor of the season!

We feel you, cow. We feel you.

We’ve got samples, yes we do, we’ve got samples, how ‘bout you? Come taste some cheese on this gorgeous market day!

Did you know that we use local garlic in our White Gold? Our friends at are behind the garlicky goodness of our popular cheese spread. We’re stocked up with dip and more - swing by before noon!

We wouldn’t be here without the support of local partners like , our very first wholesale account. Thanks for the great pic of Dave today - we appreciate you guys so much!

Your rainy day needs some cheese! We’re here until noon - see you soon!

We’re back and we’ve got a new cheese! Bambino is our “baby parm”, aged young to give you that buttery, nutty flavor you love, but with a sliceable, snackable, semi-firm texture. Basically, the perfect cheese for picnics, cheese boards, and summer snack needs!

Well, folks, this is not the update we were hoping to share. We finally heard from MDARD about our grant application status, and unfortunately we were not chosen. MDARD received 98 eligible applicants and only funded 18, which means there are 79 other local producers across the state feeling just as heartbroken as we are. Amplifying that tough feeling is the concern that we’ve disappointed our amazing community of contributors. You all put your time, energy, and money behind our little creamery, and we feel terrible that our Plan A has fallen through.

That said, we’re not giving up. If starting this business has taught us anything, it’s that tenacity and resilience are often the driving forces that get us through when things get rough. So… we’re going to get back up, dust ourselves off, and move onto Plan B. We always knew the grant funding wasn’t a sure thing, and that we might need to pursue alternative funding elsewhere. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

Now that we know where we stand with the grant, we can start discussing our plans with regional lenders who specialize in supporting small ventures like ours. It won’t be easy - everyone is hurting financially right now, with more businesses seeking support than ever, and at increasing interest rates to boot. But we have each other, and we have you. Our community, who believes in our ability and our potential enough to raise $30,000 in 60 days. We don’t know how long it will take to solidify our business funding, but we will keep you in the loop along the way. Your contributions have made you a part of our creamery’s story, even if that story has one more twist than we’d hoped.

With love,
Joy & Dave

Strawberry season has arrived ! Today’s batch of fresh ricotta is destined for one of our favorite summer treats - Strawberry Ricotta Toast. 😍

It’s a beautiful day at the Farmers Market! We’re here until noon - see you soon!

Feeling pretty spoiled by Dave’s handmade pasta! Asparagus-Lemon Ricotta Cappelletti was the perfect spring dinner.

Hot Fuzz 😍 We’re excited to bring back our popular Late Bloomer this summer! These guys still have a while to go, but we’ve got lots of other cheese at today’s !

The early bird gets the… cheese? It’s a gorgeous opening day this morning! We’re here from 7:30-Noon - see you soon!