Feb 13, 2023
Love is like a herd of goats...
When our cheesemaker Mandy got married last year, she was determined to have goats feature throughout the wedding! Not only did she and...
Feb 3, 2023
A Day in the Life...
It’s a Wednesday towards the end of January, and we’re coming to the end (we hope!) of another freezing cold spell. No two days are the...
Mar 31, 2022
The cheesemaker's year
During my ten years as a teacher, I got very accustomed to the pattern of the school year: the back-to-school dread of late summer, the...
Mar 9, 2022
Why does animal feed matter so much to the environment?
Last year I took a module in ruminant nutrition (i.e. what you feed cows, sheep and goats) as part of my masters in Sustainable...
Feb 1, 2021
Is cheese making a science or an art? The ‘secrets’ of handcrafting artisan goat’s cheese
Our latest blog post is written by Amanda Woolmer A.K.A. Mandy, one of the key members of our cheesemaking team. It’s 9am on a cold, wet...
Nov 12, 2020
Back to School
Last month, I embarked on studying again, something I haven't done formally for well over a decade now. I am a self-confessed geek and...
Sep 12, 2020
What should you drink with our cheese?
Cheese and wine are a famous pairing, and rightly so. Stray outside the well-known combination of port and stilton, however, and things...
Aug 4, 2020
My Year Without Dairy
I’ve got a secret to share: until last week, I hadn’t actually eaten cheese for a whole year. A cheesemaker not eating cheese, you ask?...
Jul 16, 2020
Meet the milker
Linda was the first person to work for Fraser and I, joining us back in 2016 to help us with some relief milking so we could get away to...
Jun 24, 2020
A crisis in English goats cheese?
In late 2016, when our cheese Sinodun Hill first arrived on the counter at Neal’s Yard Dairy, it sat amongst a range of other English...
