C.J. Bienert is Des Moines’ chosen cheese monger. Through his Cheese Shop and Cheese Bar, he has enticed the city’s palate to appreciate distinctions between whey and casein proteins, goat’s milk and sheep’s milk fats, Pyrenees and Alpine terroirs, etc.
He has promoted wine and cheese tastings t
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Show Transcript SPORTS. JUST LAST WEEK, TEAMMATE LUKA GARZA BECAME THE SCHOOLS ALL-TIME LEADING SCORER. WELL MOST IOWA FARMS ARE PASSED , DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. BUT THEN HOW DO OUTSIDERS GET INTO THE GAME? KCCI’S BEAU BOWMAN INTRODUCES US TO A JOHNSTON COUPLE RAISING MONEY TO START THEIR OWN SUSTAINABLE FARM IN EARLHA BEAU: THIS WINDSWEPT HILLSIDE NORTH OF EARLHAM IS THE CLASEN FAMILY’S FIELD OF DREAMS. AND THROUGH VIRTUAL BARNRAISING EFFORTS, IF YOU COME, THEY WILL BUILD UP. FOR US, ALL THE FARMS PRIOR WERE KIND OF OUT OF OUR PRICE RANGE, BUT WE WERE ABLE TO GET THIS PRETTY AFFORDABLE. BEAU: YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE JORDAN AND WHITNEY CLASEN FROM THE DES MOINES FARMERS MARKET WHERE THEY SELL THEIR ORGANIC VEGETABLES THAT THEY GROW RIGHT HERE IN THE METRO. BUT AS THEIR