The enterprise of the Watkins-Sully family, the centre incorporates commercial cooking and production facilities, along with a fruit pressing room, a classroom, a marketing and graphic design studio and a retail shop - a one-stop shop for rural cottage industries.
Local cooks, growers, producers and artisans can use the facilities are can help develop a 'Braidwood Made' (www.braidwoodmade.com.au) marketing network. The centre will also run courses for small producers.
The 'Old Cheese Factory' had been known as 'The Reidsdale Rural Co-operative Society', which made cheese for 30 years, until production ceased in 1957.
Guests at the opening were treated to an entertaining 'dialogue' about cheese by Chris Payne and Michael Gill, followed by a spread of locally produced and made delicacies, wine and apple juice.
The nterprise was made possible by an Ausindustry Federal Government dollar for dollar grant of just under $100,000.
The Centre's shop will be open 10 - 3pm Friday to Sunday, and by appointment for groups. Tel 0407 292 181.
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