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Statement from Wilma Finlay of The Ethical Dairy Yesterday we mentioned on social media that we were suspending accepting orders for delivery to addresses in Northern Ireland. The response on Twitter to this has been overwhelming. So, I wanted to ...

Sadly, we need to suspend accepting orders for delivery to Northern Ireland with immediate effect. We know this will be disappointing for our NI customers. It’s unbelievably frustrating for us. The paperwork involved in sending a single pack of ...

The Oxford Real Farming Conference is a major event in the calendar for people interested in breaking away from industrial farming models to produce real food. It only started in 2010 and quickly outgrew its home in the Oxford Town Hall with the 1400 ...

So while Bluebell has been misbehaving in ripening faster than we wanted, Barlocco Blue has been given a gold star and told it is top of the class by our cheesemaker Stephen, who is really very excited about how this Christmas batch of Barolocco has ...

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 ...