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OUR CHRISTMAS ORDER DEADLINE HAS NOW PASSED. We are unable to dispatch any more orders before Christmas. Thank you to everyone who has chosen to include our cheese in your festive plans. Digital Gift Vouchers, including Subscription Vouchers, can ...

Sorry, fresh milk from our cow with calf dairy farm is not currently available to buy. You can find details of all the other cow-with-calf dairy farms in the UK on this website.

David and I have just returned from an exhilarating conference on dairy farming for artisan cheese. One fascinating session was about a French project which has designed a dairy farm to match citizen expectations. It’s a three year project funded by ...

I guess many people will be familiar with the debate about how we should produce our food and manage our land in a more sustainable fashion, going forward. To ‘spare’ or to ‘share’? This is not a new subject. I first came across it in David Quammen’s ...

We were planning to share the Introduction to ‘A Dairy Story’ to mark the 50% funded point, but your support has been so incredible that we crossed that point before we had finished proofreading the text. Written by Wilma, the Introduction describes ...

Update One Well, what can we say. We are absolutely blown away by the support from so many people for this project. Thank you so much. What an incredible response, we are truly humbled. One of the things we haven't mentioned yet is that our book, ‘A ...

We've thought about writing a book for years. For lots of reasons - including personal reasons - now felt like the right time to do it. 'A Dairy Story' is the full, no holds barred, story of the transformation of our farm. We've often described what ...

It has been the established position of many that it’s impossible to have plentiful, healthy and affordable food, and at the same time have very high social, environmental and ethical standards. I used to believe this too, but not anymore. Three ...

As the Russian and Ukrainian conflict beds in for the seeming long-haul and global commodity prices rocket skywards, this should be seen as yet another warning of the fragility and unsustainability of our food system. Once-upon-a-time the globalised ...

David has just had a comment flagged as spam and deleted* from a good article written by Patrick Holden on the dairy industry. Naturally David would go further than Patrick in commenting on how broken the dairy farming system is. So we thought we'd ...

I thought there was value in reflecting both on the recent BBC Panorama programme, ‘A Cow’s Life’ and the social media reaction to it over the last week. We were first approached by Panorama by phone just before Christmas, and to say we were ...

On the recent Panorama programme ‘A Cow’s Life’ looking at animal welfare in the dairy industry, the deputy leader of NFU Wales - who is a conscientious, welfare-friendly dairy farmer - said it might be possible that all dairy farmers would be ...

THIS POSITION IS NOW FILLED Thank you to everyone who has shown an interest in working with us. *** We are growing our team, and we are recruiting an Assistant Cheesemaker. You will work within our small cheese making team, learning to make, turn and ...

Please Note: This survey is now closed. One of the questions we are asked most often is 'where can we buy your milk?' - so, we are exploring whether making fresh milk available to buy is possible and practical. There are all sorts of reasons why we ...

As a child I was very much aware that there were some cows so quiet that you could sit on their backs and others who would kick you as you tried to put on the milking machine. One extra-ordinary cow could send a jet of slurry halfway across the byre ...

Our order deadline for cheese deliveries before Christmas has now passed. Cheese deliveries will resume from 12th January 2022. Digital Gift Vouchers and Subscriptions remain available. Blog updated: 10th December This is a summary of key details ...

We recently took part in a social media takeover with Pasture for Life Association where we sought to highlight the biodiversity on our farm. As part of that campaign we gathered lots of info into a biodiversity case study, which is outlined on PFLA ...

Back in August, after reading the IPCC's climate change report, we committed to spending the next few months taking action to raise awareness of regenerative farming as being part of the climate solution. The months have flown past and, naturally, we ...

As government debates licencing the Cumbrian coalmine and the mega oil patch west of Shetland, and in the lead-up to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow later this year, another extra urgent IPCC report on the state of our climate today thuds ...

Having just watched Countryfile on iPlayer, in response to the outcry about the Irish dairy farmer practicing zero-grazing for his 200 dairy cows, several thoughts struck me. Firstly, the zero-grazing system (mowing the grass in the fields and ...