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Let Jonny show you how easy it is to make a simple cheese. Along the way we’ll learn all about the magic ingredient, rennet. Rennet is the secret ingredient to almost any cheese you’ve ever eaten!

Ever wondered how our raw milk is different from everyday pasteurised milk? In our latest episode, Jonny goes through the 7 steps we take at the farm to ensure our milk is bottled safely and in peak condition.

Free hot water from a steaming pile of poo? Absolutely! Our latest episode explores our crusade to capture and recycle the free waste heat that occurs all around the farm from ordinary processes every day, and turn it into free energy!

Jonny visits cheesemonger Nico at the new Earsham Street Deli @ Snape Maltings to find out all about selling Britain’s favourite brie, Baron Bigod. We also hear about other local artisan cheeses which form the centrepiece of his enticing cheese counter.

A video to answer your most-asked question! We follow Athena as she learns the traditional method of hand-milking a cow and move on to the modern approach we use today on the farm.  

How do you like your cheese? What does “ripe” really mean? How does a Brie style cheese mature? We discuss all this and more while tasting Baron Bigod through its different stages from day one to two years!

Meet Daniel Gale, former zoo keeper and now our Skyr maker at Fen Farm Dairy. You may know us better for our Baron Bigod cheese but we also make a delicious cultured butter. To make the butter we must skim the butter fats from the milk leaving skimmed milk as a waste product. As part…

We meet Shaun, former truck driver now the man behind our delicious Bungay Butter. This raw milk product is second only to Baron Bigod in popularity and is the mainstay in bakeries, restaurants and for several top chefs across the UK.

In 2013 we were visited by Anna Hill from BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today. She was keen to discover what had prompted Jonny and Dulcie to travel to France in 2012 with a dream of bringing the Montbéliarde breed of cow back to the UK and making a French style brie in Suffolk. It just so…

We join Deputy Head Cheesemaker Tom Livermore as he takes us through the cheesemaking process behind one of the UK’s most loved raw milk cheeses – Baron Bigod.

In episode 6 we meet Iona, our Customer Relations Manager. Iona is a great example of someone who connects the farm to our customers. She looks after our retail, wholesale and restaurant accounts, which makes her a very busy lady! As she says herself, “once you’ve tasted Baron Bigod, it sells itself”.

Join Stevan Peckett, Production Manager at Fen Farm Dairy. Stevan has to deal with staff shortages, unpredictable ordering patterns and the challenges of producing great quality, raw milk cheese. It’s February on our small farm in the Waveney Valley, the wind is cold but Spring is definitely in the air.