Apr 18, 2020
A cheesemaker's reflections on the crisis
This past month has been a very bumpy one for us, like people and businesses around the world. It seems hard to believe that only a month...
Jan 6, 2020
We're hiring - assistant cheesemaker
Assistant Cheesemaker Full time assistant cheesemaker required to join our small multi award-winning artisan goats cheese business based...
Nov 27, 2019
From the maker's mouth
Meet one of our lovely cheesemakers! Mandy joined us in October 2018 to help us in the run up to Christmas. Although Mandy didn't have...
Nov 19, 2019
Meet our team
What kind of team do you need to run a small artisan cheese business like Norton and Yarrow? In the very early days, it was just the two...
Nov 28, 2018
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...
Sep 13, 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....
Feb 22, 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...
Oct 16, 2017
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...
May 20, 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...
Jan 18, 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...