THE CALF-FRIENDLY, COW-KIND MICRO-DAIRY!
" You can taste the kindness" Rebecca Hosking M.B.E Village Farm
btw.....We're Hiring
Welcome to the pioneering and only, Calf at Foot Dairy®️ !
Founded on a firm belief that dairy cows should keep their calves until their natural weaning age, we put welfare before profit, because health, happiness and the ethical treatment of animals should always come before profit.
When you drink milk from our cows at our dairy, you are not drinking milk from a depressed, grieving animal who has had her baby taken away. Our mission is to make the world a better place for dairy cows.
If dairies had glass walls everyone would buy milk from The Calf At Foot Dairy. We have the strictest welfare standards of all the dairies.
Founded on a firm belief that dairy cows should keep their calves until their natural weaning age, we put welfare before profit, because health, happiness and the ethical treatment of animals should always come before profit.
When you drink milk from our cows at our dairy, you are not drinking milk from a depressed, grieving animal who has had her baby taken away. Our mission is to make the world a better place for dairy cows.
If dairies had glass walls everyone would buy milk from The Calf At Foot Dairy. We have the strictest welfare standards of all the dairies.
"Producing proper milk, but with compassion"
- Fiona Provan (tenant farmer/founder CAFD )
But don't just take our word for it check out the endless list of 5 Star customer reviews in the online shop......
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Our 100% grassfed Jersey cows' delicious and luxuriously creamy, RAW milk can be delivered via mail order all over the UK, even to the deepest darkest reaches, or bought directly from the farm at any time (Self Service - open 24/7) but, make sure you leave time to wander in amongst the girls - they are very welcoming and don't mind showing off their calves. We take card payments at the farm-gate too.
We are proudly 'Purely Pasture Fed', meaning our cows are NOT allowed to eat junk food such as grain whether it be wheat, barley, corn, cereals, soya or gmo.
If you have any queries please go to our Contact page.
please don't ring me after 8pm unless it's urgent.
Our customers are our certifying body - We are not certified by an organic body or any other certifying body, we are proudly 'unsigned' we don't feel these certifying bodies do our methods and extremely high standards of welfare the justice it deserves! Also we do not feel the need to tick any more boxes than we have to by law. There aren't boxes to suit us anyway - we sit proudly outside the box !
but just to reassure you.......
........Our beautiful Jersey cows are fed a natural diet and that means: no grain, no cereal, no soya, no GMOs' – just purely pasture fed meaning 100% grass-fed..
· No routine use of antibiotics, wormers' or chemicals on our cows or on our farm. and of course we do not use chemical fertilizers or sprays where our cows graze.
I have set up The CAFD to make the world a better place for dairy cows .......Our cows are not treated as disposables or commodities.
I can proudly now say our micro-dairy has triggered a 'Cruelty Free Dairy Revolution' with other dairies all over the UK and even the globe are copying our methods.
I do not believe the cow is here to produce milk for us humans, no I think it's for her calf but, I do believe if there was a 'holy grail' of nutritional, health giving foods then raw milk from traditional purely pasture fed cows is just about as close as your going to get.
And don't forget, properly grazed cows on farms practicing holistic management can save the planet. Don't believe the burping, farting methane conspiracy of the mega corps blaming the cow, making her a scapegoat for climate change - the blame for that sits squarely on the shoulders of factory farming and The 'industry' and of course fossil fuels.
“It’s not the cow it's the how” Bring back the cow. Value soil not oil, save our soils!
We are proudly 'Purely Pasture Fed', meaning our cows are NOT allowed to eat junk food such as grain whether it be wheat, barley, corn, cereals, soya or gmo.
If you have any queries please go to our Contact page.
please don't ring me after 8pm unless it's urgent.
Our customers are our certifying body - We are not certified by an organic body or any other certifying body, we are proudly 'unsigned' we don't feel these certifying bodies do our methods and extremely high standards of welfare the justice it deserves! Also we do not feel the need to tick any more boxes than we have to by law. There aren't boxes to suit us anyway - we sit proudly outside the box !
but just to reassure you.......
........Our beautiful Jersey cows are fed a natural diet and that means: no grain, no cereal, no soya, no GMOs' – just purely pasture fed meaning 100% grass-fed..
· No routine use of antibiotics, wormers' or chemicals on our cows or on our farm. and of course we do not use chemical fertilizers or sprays where our cows graze.
I have set up The CAFD to make the world a better place for dairy cows .......Our cows are not treated as disposables or commodities.
I can proudly now say our micro-dairy has triggered a 'Cruelty Free Dairy Revolution' with other dairies all over the UK and even the globe are copying our methods.
I do not believe the cow is here to produce milk for us humans, no I think it's for her calf but, I do believe if there was a 'holy grail' of nutritional, health giving foods then raw milk from traditional purely pasture fed cows is just about as close as your going to get.
And don't forget, properly grazed cows on farms practicing holistic management can save the planet. Don't believe the burping, farting methane conspiracy of the mega corps blaming the cow, making her a scapegoat for climate change - the blame for that sits squarely on the shoulders of factory farming and The 'industry' and of course fossil fuels.
“It’s not the cow it's the how” Bring back the cow. Value soil not oil, save our soils!
WE'RE HIRING.....
We have recently relocated to the Spencer family Althorp Estate in the beautiful county of Northamptonshire.
We are looking for two full-time members of staff who will be trained in the CAFD methods by us here at Althorp. No experience is necessary, just a desire to learn. The role will involve general milking and yard duties and the day-to-day running of the original and pioneering Calf at Foot Dairy.
The role:
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We have recently relocated to the Spencer family Althorp Estate in the beautiful county of Northamptonshire.
We are looking for two full-time members of staff who will be trained in the CAFD methods by us here at Althorp. No experience is necessary, just a desire to learn. The role will involve general milking and yard duties and the day-to-day running of the original and pioneering Calf at Foot Dairy.
The role:
- Caring for cows and their calves: Monitoring the herd the successful applicants will have a natural 'stockman's eye' and will be expected to be able to pick up a drop in health or change of behaviour in an animal from day to day.
- Very little medical intervention here, but you need to be happy to tag, castrate calves, to administer injections. Experience is not important, just a willingness to learn and be hands on.
- Once a day milking: You will be trained as to how we do it here at CAFD. We pay great attention to detail and we insist on the strictest of personal, parlour and animal hygiene.... We sell raw milk!
- Bottling milk: You will be trained to our high standards of food handling / hygiene.
- Ordering supplies: You will need to monitor the essential farm and dairy supplies keeping them topped up when necessary.
- Record keeping: Some office work/IT is required unfortunately
- Selling milk and beef from the Farm Gate and online sales: Being able to talk to customers face to face with a clear understanding and an enthusiasm for what we do and why we do it.
- Yard work, mucking out bedding up feeding mainly by pitchfork with little tractor work.
- Moving/herding cows using electric fencing. We use some precision mob grazing methods which we will be expanding on as the dairy will be playing a key role in a broader very exciting regenerative farming effort.
- Being a good problem solver, observant and not frightened to voice your opinion. Every decision we make at CAFD involves taking everyone's thoughts and opinions into account.
- Most importantly, the successful applicant will be totally switched on to our way of doing dairying differently, passionate about the welfare of farm animals, the environment and healthy wholesome food. The Dairy is playing an exciting key role in the Estate’s broader push towards regenerative farming methods. The right person for the job will be enthusiastic with a desire to learn ecological and high welfare methods of producing nutrient rich foods.
- Competitive salary and benefits.
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