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FINAL ORDER DATE FOR CHRISTMAS: 17 DECEMBER Updated: 4 December 2020 Would you believe we have only five delivery dates left before Christmas! We are expecting all couriers to be extremely busy during December, so we are sticking with Wednesday and ...

If you subscribe to our monthly (ish) email newsletter you'll already have seen the story behind this photo, and it's also the story behind why we had a camera in the with the calves last weekend. Basically our autumn calves started arriving a few ...

We thought it would be a good idea to do a video to mark Organic September, and we had so much to say we ended up making eight of them...! The videos cover a wide range of different topics relating to our farm, so we thought we'd gather them all in ...

Artisan cheese makers across the UK are in crisis due to the collapse of the restaurant industry. It has affected us, to an extent, but it’s affecting many of our friends in the industry a great deal. One small thing we thought we could do is raise ...

Every spring, for the last 5 years, a grand expedition has taken place on our farm. This beautiful swan couple build their nest each year on Megan’s Lochan, a small wildlife pond next to one of our nature trails. It’s a great place to hatch their ...

We were absolutely delighted that 'A Cheesy Night In' was selected as one of BBC Good Food Magazine’s Top 15 Cheese Delivery Boxes. It’s an incredibly influential magazine, and we are so pleased to see them championing British cheese because the ...

*UPDATED 21 September 2020* Stock Levels & Cheese Availability Stock levels are now starting to return to normal, and over the next few weeks you should see more of our regular cheeses appearing in the shop in 500g wedges. Unfortunately our Saturday ...

How are you doing? It’s been a strange week and it’s difficult to know what to say. We spent a couple of days this week with our cheese guru who is amazingly knowledgeable about microbiology. She reaffirmed to us that hand washing with soap is the ...

David was invited to write an opinion article for the I Paper, which you can read here. You can read David's full, unedited version below. ... Who could have imagined a decade ago that the politics of dairy farming would be discussed at the Oscars ...

If you are lucky enough to live in an Abel & Cole delivery area you can now buy our cheeses along with your regular delivery! Single retail packs of Carrick, Laganory, Rainton Tomme and Fleet Valley Blue can be added to orders scheduled for delivery ...

How do you choose the cheese that's right for you via a website? We sat down with a cheese expert to taste test in detail our five core cheeses and put together this overview of our range.

A three year pilot by an organic dairy farm to test a radical new approach to dairy farming has concluded. Rainton Farm in south west Scotland, run by David and Wilma Finlay, has now committed to continuing with their cow with calf dairy farming ...

We gave ourselves three years to prove our cow with calf system can work. That three years is now up, so does it work? To answer that question I’d like to introduce you to a cow called One-Forty-Four, because that is her name. Folk think that by ...

Around this time last year we spent a couple of hours speaking with a researcher from the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission. It was part of their UK bike tour where researchers spent a week at a time travelling through a particular region of ...

To the casual observer, if a dairy cow does have to have a calf every year to continue producing milk (which it does), leaving those calves with their mothers would seem a fairly simple change. Nothing could be further from the truth. This ‘simple’ ...

This is a big update on everything that’s been happening in our world of cheese at The Ethical Dairy over the past few months. Bear with us, this could be a long post! Cheese Stocks Unfortunately we are essentially sold out of cheese until October ...

There’s always something that goes wrong… for us it was a 10pm phone call from the sound and video team the night before the conference to tell us that, “unless it’s an overcast day tomorrow, no one will be able to see the slides.” The reason? We had ...

There’s a lively debate going on in the food world just now about how we address the complex and inter-connected range of challenges facing society. It’s known as ‘Sparing or Sharing’. The Sparing argument goes something like this; if we concentrate ...

Contrary to powerful, vested interests who are demonising all beef and dairy, grass-based beef and dairy can deliver good health and positive environmental outcomes. The conference we’re hosting on our farm next week will explain the science behind ...

While Wilma has been at the trade show in Birmingham, David has had a busy time meeting groups of researchers and explaining our cow with calf system. Last weekend we had three vets from Bologna in Italy visit – all very experienced with dairy cow ...