Tom and Giana Ferguson
Gubbeen Farm, in the bay of Schull in West Cork, has been worked by the Ferguson family for five generations, but Tom and Giana’s cheesemaking is the result of a wonderful marriage of two cultures. As a child in Spain, Giana's family had made cheese from goats milk on her father's small farm in the mountains above Alora. Later, living in France, Giana was brought into contact with the great french cheeses. Marrying into a farming family in Ireland ­where some of the best milk in Europe is produced, ­Giana and her husband Tom experimented and started to produce their own cottage cheeses and fresh cheeses in the 1970s.