

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...
Nov 28, 2018


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....
Sep 13, 2018


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...
Feb 22, 2018


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...
Oct 16, 2017


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...
May 20, 2017


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...
Jan 18, 2017


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...
Nov 22, 2016


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...
Oct 17, 2016


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...
Sep 22, 2016


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...
Sep 6, 2016
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