In 1981, the Gort family immigrated from Holland and purchased a 45-acre farm at Salmon Arm. Gort's Gouda Cheese Farm was established in 1983.   In August 2007, ownership of the farm switched to the Wikkerinks', a family from Agassiz.

At first, we made plain Gouda and Quark. Quark is a soft German cream cheese. As the years passed, we expanded into making different spiced Gouda's, Maasdammer (a Swiss-style cheese),  yogurt.

Over the years, we have not been hesitant to experiment with our cheese flavours, and have recently brought into production a new cheese we call Mazuda (it is a semi hard cheese with the zip from a Swiss style cheese but the texture is more like a Gouda).

In 2009 we started selling our cows milk in glass bottles.

We are also proud of a Champion Firm Cheese Gold Medal which was awarded in 2004 at the Canadian Grande Prix.

Sales started with just local sales but has grown to include going up and down the Okanagan and also a good distribution in the Vancouver area. We deliver to these areas weekly.

We take pride in the fact that twenty years later our artisan cheese is delivered to a variety of locations in the Shuswap, Okanagan, and the Lower-Mainland of British Columbia. Cheese is also shipped throughout the rest of Canada via Canada Post.