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In Arkansas, there’s not a lot of cheese makers here,” explains Keahey. “We’re just not a dairying state.” But a love of cooking and fermenting led her to believe that she could provide a needed, epicurean corner in the form of a cut-to-order cheese shop for like-minded Arkansans. “There’s a lot of difficulty,” she says, “because we’re creating distribution networks of our own, and we’re educating consumers kind of on our own.”
It bears mentioning that Bentonville, where Sweet Freedom is located, is far from Arkansas’s largest city. About 9th in size by population, it has only about a quarter of the residents of Little Rock, and its main claim to fame is as the birthplace of Walmart. However, “Really intriguing culinary things have been popping up here,” says Keahey, and the greater metropolitan area population she estimates to be about half a million citizens. “There’s certainly people who drive two or three hours to come to our shop,” she says, “which we’re always just really humbled by.”
