READY TO GET FUNKY?!

Own Your Funk (OYF) is an innovative brand on a mission to bring greater self empowerment through the love of food, oneself and the culture.

Inspired and motivated by the urgent need for more diversity in who’s buying, selling and producing artisan foods, specifically value-added dairy, founder Kyra uses her personal learning journey to create intentional educational food experiences! 

Keeping it unapologetically funky since 1985.

YOUR STORY IS YOUR FLAVOR.

Follow The Funk!

 
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View fullsize One day, we’re gonna figure out how to consistently show up HERE but thankful to all y’all on this journey with us! Cheers to celebrating new partnerships, print media, growing our events programming and to traveling just for fun! And sho
View fullsize Where we’ve been at?! As a cheese professional and food educator we receive a variety of invitations and requests… here’s a moment of gratitude and love for our most recent adventures in the media ✨ @tastingtable wonderful piece p
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View fullsize It’s time to head back to the classroom with one of our favorite tasting experiences! Join Kyra, food educator, certified cheese professional and nomadic cheesemonger for her first event in her CT hometown – learning and enjoying cheese p
View fullsize October is filled with important dates so we decided to highlight a bunch; not only to build awareness of celebrations but also exciting upcoming events! From world and national food days to THREE webinars presented by @american_cheese_society of whi
View fullsize REMINDER! 60% of ALL adults and 80+% of those with BIPOC genetic backgrounds don’t produce (enough of) the enzyme LACTASE to digest fluid dairy milks. And we feel the same percentages don’t realize this VERY common genetic evolutionary mi
View fullsize Who knew a simple yes would be so rewarding?! Felt like old times being behind the cheese “counter” working with @lifelovecheese at the @macheeseguild annual cheese festival. Serving + selling local cheeses to hundreds of people while enj
View fullsize “Humans have been benefiting from the consumption of fermented foods for more than 10,000 years but, researchers only began to study and APPRECIATE the multitude of benefits delivered by this microbe-driven food transformation process over the