Farmstead cheese is made from the dairy animals ( goats,sheep,cows) raised on the

cheesemakers farm and linked to family enterprise. Artisan cheese can be farmstead but it is a cheese made by hand and not mass produced.However artisan cheese can be produced with out having raised the dairy animal.

Yes, the word 'artisan' is a noun, a word for someone who is skilled at making things by hand; someone who produces something (cheese, beer, wine, etc.) in limited quantities often using traditional methods; a word for a person.

Cheddar is tradionally a hard,pressed, rinded cows milk cheese. Artisan cheddars are made in this way but mass produced cheddar is made in large plastic wrapped blocks.

I know a good woodworking artisan.

That artisan is quite talented with many mediums.

a person became an artisan by being an apprentice before being an artisan