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About Gilly & Evan

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Gillian Gifford Short (Gilly) is a Northwest born and bred farmer, chef, butcher, fermentista and forager. She is a graduate of Seattle Culinary Academy and worked with some outstanding chefs in both Seattle and Portland. While working at Lark in Seattle she had the opportunity to explore her interests in cheese-making and charcuterie/curing meats at Kurtwood Farm, famous for it’s farmstead cheese among other things.

Her time on the farm led her away from the kitchen and off to the Iberian Peninsula in search of traditional cheese-making and charcuterie. After traveling through Spain she settled in a small town in central Portugal with a hardworking family on a self-sustaining, off the grid homestead. For two years she lived on the farm; milking goats, raising pigs, harvesting olives, grinding corn and making ferments, cheese and charcuterie.

Upon returning to The United States she wanted to further her cheese-making education and took an internship at River’s Edge Chevre in Logsden, Oregon. Following that she interned with Willow Witt Ranch in Ashland, Oregon and set-up and ran the Herdshare milk program and taught butchery classes.

She worked many years at the Rogue Valley Growers market for Whistling Duck Farm and Wandering Roots Farm and also worked the fields as a farm hand and tractor lady too. She loves connecting market customers to new and unique vegetables and recipes. In 2016 she established and ran the Charcuterie at Wooldridge Creek Winery.

Currently, she farms with her husband, Evan Short in the beautiful Applegate Valley in Jacksonville, Oregon. She teaches cheese, charcuterie and cooking classes privately and at the Ashland Food Co-op. You can also find her foraging with Evan, and two dogs in the Siskiyous and Cascades.

Evan runs a successful soil amendment business sobokashi.com and is by Gilly's side every evening to help with farm chores and milking <3
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More info on Charcuterie classes
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What Our Customers Are Saying

"This is my second year signing up for the Goat Milk CSA Membership and I have always had good experiences. The milk is delicious and pickup is very straightforward. The milk also stays fresh for a very long time, meaning Gilly does an excellent job of sanitizing and cooling the milk to ensure safety! I'd highly recommend this to anyone looking for a local raw goat milk source."
​-Kyle P.

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"Our family has been drinking and cooking with the best goat milk thanks to Rogue Artisan Foods. When our baby transitioned from mama's milk, it was totally smooth with the help of this amazing goat milk. The ground pork makes the best ever meatballs, and the bacon is too delicious. We know that Gilly and Evan always treat their farm animals well, and only feed them good foods (zero GMOs). The milk and meat have helped us localize our diets and it tastes way better than anything you'd buy at a box store!"
- Mitra S.

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  • Rogue Artisan Foods
  • Farm Store
    • Buy Goat Milk
    • Buy Duck Eggs
    • Buy Meat
  • Goat Dairy
    • Why is RAW milk healthier?
    • How to search for RAW milk
    • Milk Test
  • Duck Eggs
  • Meat
  • About
    • Contact us
  • Gift Cards!