Day 4 of 5 Great Recipes – Buckwheat pancakes with salted butter and honey
These mini blini-style pancakes can take savoury toppings as well as sweet – notably smoked salmon and sour cream.
Day 3 of 5 Great Recipes – Three Cheese and Tomato Muffins
One for cheese bread addicts, without the hassle of yeast cookery. So good eaten warm when the little pockets of cheese are gooey, a mélange of Emmental and gruyère, but otherwise Comté or Abondance, and the pecorino could be Parmesan. They will be there on demand for several days thereafter stored in an airtight bag, and will come…
Day 2 of 5 Great Recipes – Comte Fondue with Dippers
Fondue is a dish that can sink the boat: it is almost impossible to stop dipping into that big pot of molten sin once you start. So coming up with a respectable alternative that didn’t eat up a month’s worth of saturated fat in one sitting has been simmering at the back of my mind throughout the writing…
Finding free range map
We have outgrown our Finding Free Range Dairy map. We have added so many new locations to the map making it geographically less accurate. So, we have now replaced it with, not one but two new Google maps – Finding free range and Case studies. Google maps are so much more versatile and easier to…
Updated website header
Have you noticed our updated website header? It’s just a small change where we have incorporated the Pasture Promise logo with the Free Range Dairy logo. We felt that we wanted to enhance the close association between Free Range Dairy and Pasture Promise. From this: .. to this: If you haven’t already, you can…
Join our community
We have now launched formal membership of the Free Range Dairy Network for farmers and we are also giving others who want to be able to choose milk from cows in fields the chance to support us. In order to bring about real change in the British Dairy industry we need to bring farmers and…
The Wight Stuff
I have just been reading about a great campaign put together by dairy farmers on the Isle of Wight, which has established a brand for milk produced on the Island– The Wight Stuff. Back in the 1960’s there were over 300 dairy farms on the Isle of Wight but there are now only 16 left.…
Will another year of turmoil make us all battle weary?
NFU Cymru will tell The House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee that dairy farmers must not suffer a repeat of the year of “turmoil” they have endured in 2012, when they meet to discuss the future of dairy farming in Wales tomorrow. Absolutely right – like all UK milk producers they should not, must not…
Record number of Website visitors
The Free Range Dairy website have passed a milestone. Our website have now more than 1,000 unique website visitors per month. This is very good news and is a brilliant achievement.
Engaging folks
I just thought you might like to see a catchy little You Tube clip called ‘I’m Farming and I Grow It’ made by the Peterson Brothers from Kansas, USA. It has already had over 2.5 million views and I think they’ve done a pretty good job in getting a message across about what they do.…
Farmer Survey – see the results
The recent farmer survey has produced some really interesting results, which provide a useful insight into how dairy farmers see their businesses today and their thoughts on the way ahead in an ever-changing world. We hear much about the difficulties that milk producers are facing, with increasing costs, a growing burden of legislation and red…
Amazon voucher winners
Congratulations to all our winners of the £20 Amazon vouchers. The lucky winners are: Scott McGill Scotland Ioan Jones Wales Tim Buckingham South East J H Whitton & Sons North West Steven Holden North West JC & AC Booth Wales Andrew Maltby South West J. M Lee East Midlands Peter & Mary Fish South West…
Survey out now!
The survey is out now and we are already receiving many responses. The survey is available both online and as a printed form to be returned via freepost. Look out for an insert in this month’s British Dairying, your next National Milk Records, the January issues of Dairy Farmer and South West Farmer. It doesn’t…
Survey coming soon
Somerset Farmer wants others to help reclaim the value of milk Neil Darwent, a dairy farmer from Frome in Somerset, has recently established a new farmer-led initiative to reclaim the value of milk for UK dairy farmers. Through Free Range Dairy, he is seeking to unite thousands of milk producers who still operate a pasture-based…