Bay Area Water Buffalo Cheese Business Owner Trying To Secure Permanent Home For Herd

CBS Bay Area

January 22, 2026

Sonoma County is home to a lot of dairy farms. But few have a herd quite like Audrey Hitchcock's.

"This girl's gonna give me a hard time," she said, with a sigh, as she climbed out of her battered pickup.

Hitchcock owns Ramini Mozzarella, a line of authentic cheeses made from the milk of water buffaloes, Italian water buffaloes, to be precise. To meet the herd close-up, she said it's safer for a stranger carrying a camera to stay in the pickup bed, up on top of the haybales.

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