Dee Harley launched Harley Farms in 1991, breathing life into a derelict cow dairy which was built in 1910 during San Mateo County’s rapid growth in the dairy industry. Today, Harley Farms is the only active dairy in San Mateo County after the last cow dairies were closed in the 1980s. Our operations began with six goats, milked by hand, producing a small amount of cheese sold at local farmers’ markets and retail stores across the San Francisco Bay Area.

We are a small-scale farmstead goat dairy which produces goat cheese, exclusively using milk from our own goats and adhering to traditional cheesemaking methods. The bucolic farm and its historic buildings are located two miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, in the town of Pescadero, California. Its proximity to the ocean impacts the terroir of the goats’ pasture and contributes to the mild flavor of our cheese.