Sister Maria Gonzalo stirs the cheese on a recent Thursday, cheese-making day at the monastery in Crozet. The nuns take shifts in helping with the process that takes place in the monastery’s barn. The cheese is stirred in 20-minute intervals. “We always say the secret ingredient is love and prayer. You get out what you put in,” Sister Gonzalo said.
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God’s gouda: Nuns in Albemarle County make cheese
Tucked in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, down a lengthy stretch off U.S. 250, over a bridge, through the woods and at the end of a gravel road sits Our Lady of the Angels Monastery perched on a hillside. The 13 nuns who live there believe God has a plan for everyone.
