Is this the best cheese around KC? It just won a national award — again
Weston’s Green Dirt Farm just won yet another honor for its creamy, sheep’s milk cheese.
The farm’s Dirt Lover cheese (a pure sheep’s milk, bloomy rind cheese with a vegetable ash coating) is a 2025 Community Choice Good Food Award winner. It won the same award in 2019.
Dirt Lover was also a first place winner at the American Cheese Society in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Not to mention, the Weston farm at 1099 Welt St. was recently named a top small business destination by voters in an Advance Funds Network survey.
The creamery and cafe is about 40 minutes north of Kansas City, serving cheese, lamb meat, sandwiches, ice cream and more.
Green Dirt is owned by farmer and self-proclaimed “big cheese” Sarah Hoffmann, who’s been running the operation since 2002.
Hoffmann opened a Kansas City Crossroads restaurant last year, hoping to bring her cheeses and other recipes a little closer to Kansas City fans. Green Dirt on Oak, 1601 Oak St., is a more upscale version of the Weston cafe. It offers sit-down service and rooftop views, selling cheese croquetes, lamb tartare, and more.
Green Dirt on Oak also has a grab-and-go market, selling its cheeses and other farm favorites.
The Good Food Awards aims to celebrate engaged, yet “often overlooked,” players in the culinary sphere, according to its website. The foundation champions growers, ranchers, markets and merchants, recognizing taste, quality and sustainability.
Each year since 2010, the Good Food Awards crowns three crafters per category from each region of the U.S.
Two other winners hailed from Missouri: Askinoise Chocolate in Springfield for its 62% Dark Milk Chocolate + Fleur de Sel Sea Salt bar, and Honeymoon Chocolates in St. Louis for its Chocolate Covered Raw Honeycomb bar.