Norton and Yarrow Cheese

How do you learn to make cheese?

Fraser and I often get asked about how we got into cheese making, and whether we already knew what we were doing before we decided to...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Is cheese making a science or an art? The ‘secrets’ of handcrafting artisan goat’s cheese

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

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