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Regenerative Farming & Sustainable Diets is a new book, published a few days ago, that includes a chapter David has authored. This book brings together the world’s leading experts to challenge the status quo and to highlight pathways to a global food ...

Blessed are the Cheesemakers, so the saying goes. On the whole cheesemakers are humble people who don’t like blowing their own trumpet, and like most of us they focus more on criticism than praise. Today was the exception. A Special Delivery ...

David's father - James Finlay - recently passed away, just a few weeks short of his 101 birthday. James was a remarkable man who lived an active and very full life. Ten years ago, in his early 90s, James gave a talk about cheese making at Rainton ...

It’s weird the stuff the media picks up on, don’t you think? I mean, we’ve seen these leeches for years on the farm. They’re a bloody nuisance! Coming down the water pipes from the farm reservoir and getting stuck in the inlet valves of the cattle ...

Here’s everything you need to know about ordering cheese from us for Christmas 2023. We will update this blog regularly in during November and December. Final Delivery Dates The final order deadline has now passed. Final deliveries will take place on ...

One of the best things about the nights drawing in is the prospect of winter markets and Christmas fairs. We are planning on taking part in quite a few this winter, and as we book them in the diary, we'll update the list of events below. 5 Nov ...

I must say I’m in complete awe of the traffic on the crowded streets of Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. For every car there will be at least 20 motorbikes all travelling at between 5 and 20 mph. The roads are narrow and while the flow is for left-hand ...

UPDATE 7th October 2023 Cream o’ Galloway Visitor Centre will be re-opening on 14th October under the new management of Brymor Ice Cream from North Yorkshire. Paul Hodgson, who is the owner of Brymor, is familiar with Dumfries and Galloway, having ...

I’ve just finished reading a fascinating and depressingly familiar story of how the corporations are selling us highly addictive and life-threatening products, quite legally. The book describes how addictive substances are dressed up as food but have ...

We've pulled together a list of markets and events we're attending over the summer, organised by location. We will update this as the summer goes on. Dumfries & Galloway Sunday 2 July Dumfries Farmers' Market Saturday 15 July Whithorn Beer & Cheese ...

It came as a surprise to be invited to sit on an advisory group to the UK’s Climate Change Committee. I was asked to take part as a representative of small food businesses in Scotland. I wondered, ‘had everyone else declined?’ While I felt we did ...

David and I have never seen ourselves as authors. We still don’t. Yet it’s becoming increasingly clear how powerful books are in changing minds and influencing policy. We all relate much more to an individual story than to stark statistics and I’m ...

One of my main tasks as Dairy Manager is maintaining the mobility of the herd. It is my firm belief that good mobility leads to good nutrition which in turn leads to good health. Cows with good feet and good mobility are able to walk without pain and ...

It has been almost three years since we last increased our prices, but the rising cost of pretty much everything has meant we have had to take a fresh look at our pricing. While we’ve absorbed big increases in the costs of energy, cheese testing ...

We are aware that some of our customers have experienced a delay in the delivery of their cheese order this week. If you have been affected, here's what you need to know: TODAY (16 December) We expect most of the delayed orders to be delivered today ...

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 ...