Norton and Yarrow Cheese

Weathering the year

This year has been quite extraordinary and challenging for those of us whose working lives are so intimately bound up with the weather. T...

Life in our new cheese room

It is almost 4 weeks to the day that we started our first ever cheese make in our new cheese making room at the farm, and we are starting...

Our new creamery starts life...

Over the summer, we were working hard on a planning application and grant application for building a new micro creamery just next to wher...

Best New Cheese!

Fraser and I were surprised and delighted to learn that our cheese Sinodun Hill had won the Best New Cheese at the Artisan Cheese Awards ...

With a little help from our friends...

One of the lovely things about being part of the Earth Trust Farm Step community is that we benefit from the help of volunteers who suppo...

We win an award

We were delighted when we heard we had been nominated in the 'Best New Business' category in the Didcot First Business and Community Awar...

A short goat history lesson

Keeping goats makes you a bit of a weirdo in the farming world. All the regulations, data and medicines seem designed for pigs, sheep and...

Our new parlour

Today we took two of our milking goats into our brand new milking parlour for the first time. Until now we've been hand milking them twic...

Sixth months selling cheese

Today is the sixth month anniversary of our first ever cheese sale. Phew! We've been making cheese for much longer than that (nearly two ...

How they've grown!

This spring we had a great crop of goat kids, who are now all well into their first year of life. Looking back at the photos of them from...

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Back to School

What should you drink with our cheese?

My Year Without Dairy

Meet the milker

A crisis in English goats cheese?

A cheesemaker's reflections on the crisis

We're hiring - assistant cheesemaker

From the maker's mouth

Meet our team

How do you learn to make cheese?

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