Planning Guide for Cheese Festivals

The American Cheese Society created this guide as a resource to help regional cheese guilds organize their own cheese festivals. It contains useful information and links to online resources, and templates that organizations can reference during the festival planning process, onsite at the event, and after the event is over, including:

  • Pre-Event Venue Planning & Logistics
  • Insurance
  • Cheese Shipping & Storage
  • Cheese Prep & Materials
  • Cheese Serving
  • Cheese Calculations
  • Alcohol Logistics
  • Alcohol Calculations
  • Volunteer Management
  • Other Logistics & Things to Think About
  • Merchandise
  • Onsite Logistics
  • Sustainability
  • Post-Event Logistics

Download the Planning Guide for Cheese Festivals (PDF)