Joe and Mary Matos, 5th generation Portuguese cheesemakers, immigrated to the United States from the lush volcanic island of Sao Jorge, Azores in the 60's and started making their family recipe for a cheese native to their homeland, St Jorge in 1979 on their farm in the Laguna de Santa Rosa.

Today, the 7th generation of the Matos family is honored to continue the tradition of organic pasture- based biodynamic farming, milking our herd of 35 crossbred dairy cows, utilizing food waste diversion, raising all of our beef on our farm and handmaking our Portuguese family's raw milk farmstead St. Jorge cheese daily.