Curds & Whey Cheese Company began with the humble cheese curd and the demand to provide fresh curds at local farmer markets. In 2003 the St. Charles Farmers Market was going out of business. We moved the Market to its current site at Baker Memorial United Methodist Church and undertook to rebuild the Market under the sponsorship of Baker Church. Faced with the prospect of losing the Market's cheese vendor as a result of the local cheese shop going out of business, Rob and Debb Murphy formed Curds & Whey Cheese Company with the initial goal of selling artisan and regional cheeses at the St. Charles Market. Along with great cheeses came fresh cheese curds from one of our favorite cheese makers, Renard's Cheese Company of Door County, Wisconsin.

Over the past four years, Curds & Whey expanded its business to include local farmer markets in the central Fox Valley Illinois region. Curds & Whey specializes in unique regional artisan cheeses, fine imported international cheeses, dairy products including butter, farmstead milk, farm fresh local eggs and related local foodstuffs.

Rob and his wife, Debb, were instrumental in the formation of the Geneva Green Market which opened in June, 2007. In the fall of 2007, Curds & Whey opened its current shop at 11 N. 5th Street, Geneva, Illinois. The Shop is located at the Inglenook Pantry Restaurant. In November of 2007, Curds & Whey in partnership with Inglenook started the Geneva Winter Market, an indoor farmers market offering locally raised foodstuffs during the off season of the local summer farmer markets.

Curds & Whey has emerged as one of the only sources for hard to find artisan cheeses in the Western Suburbs as well as a major supporter of the localvore food movement. The Geneva Winter Market is held each Saturday from November to mid June from 8 AM to 2 PM. The Shop's cheese selection does change seasonally. Be sure to check with us to see "what's new" because we are always working to bring new artisan cheeses to market in the Chicago region.