Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all the Ivy House Farm Family... and remember to be generous with your cream when it comes to your helping of Christmas pudding.

Christmas Creams are now for sale!

We are happy to announce that our Christmas Creams' are all on sale! You don't even have to worry about waiting until the last minute to buy your Brandy Clotted or Double, as due to the alcohol within them they have a much much longer shelf life so get prepared and get them early. Hopefully this will be the best tasting Christmas yet!

A Little Effort Goes A Long Way

Our DIY marketing gets noticed...

Here's Zoe Zambakides article about our bottles.

Every few days Ivy House Farm changes the message on the side of their milk carton. Last week we noticed that it was a celebration that the sun had finally come out and supporting condolences for dairy farmers hit by the supermarket milk price debacle, and no prizes for guessing that this week it’s related to team GB.
What they’re doing isn’t revolutionary- but it is clever thinking about how to do more with less: they’re printing the date anyway, so it costs them nothing to add a bit of their personality in there too.
And it worked. It caught our eye over the counter; we had a chat with the baristas about the milk, who promptly told us that we could buy it next door – an interaction (and future purchases) thatdefinitely wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
What little thing could you do, that might make a big difference?

http://eatbigfish.com/theblog/packaging-blog/a-little-effort-goes-a-long-way 

Photo Shoot at Ivy House Farm

This week Claire Paccalin has been taking photos of every animal on the farm! In preparation for our new brochures and leaflets which we are currently designing, we thought we needed some new photos of some new additions to the farm. The pigs Dolly and Polly were loving the attention however the Donkeys' Joseph and Sally appeared to seem a little camera shy! Check out the new images on the Gallery or Follow us on twitter @ivyhousedairy to see new photos uploaded every day.

5 new calves in one day!

It's been like a maternity ward at Ivy House Farm this week with around 8 new additions to the farm, on Thursday 5 were born in one day. We've been busy making more calf pens, restoring sheds, gateways and pens ready for the winter. With the weather getting colder and the nights becoming darker everyone seems to feel winter approaching... except the donkeys' Sally and Joseph who seem to be ever so determined to be free range day and night and refuse to go to bed!

Why we should all be drinking more milk

Last weeks issue of Dairy UK proved a very interesting to all at Ivy House Farm as it supported our true belief that everyone should drink more milk! Dairy UK spoke about the many health benefits of drinking the white stuff. Dairy UK wrote how dairy protein whey is found to improve several risk factors related to obesity and diabetes. For example whey has been shown to potentially enhance body composition, through reductions in body weight and increase in muscle mass. Dairy protein whey may also increase feelings of fullness leading to a reduced intake of food. In addition this whey can help blood sugar control and has been associated with reductions in blood pressure. (Dairy UK News issue no. 410 Aug 31st 2012). So carry on drinking everybody :)

Been another busy couple of weeks at Ivy House Farm. On the farm Darren is busy getting all the cow sheds and beds ready for the winter as it will soon be approaching and every cow needs a place to rest those udders! In the cream room Geoff is on designing a new butter churn, it appears the Ivy House Farm butters are becoming extremely popular and were struggling to keep up with the demand, but don't you worry if you want it... we'll provide it.

Latest from Ivy House Farm

We are pleased to annouce the birth of 3 new calves this week! All our happy and healthy and living off a diet of warm cows milk, this diet will last for around 3 months then they'll be introduced to hay and grass so they can continue to grow big and strong and give lots of lovely Ivy House Farm milk. Also in the cream room Esther has been trying out new recipes for our Christmas Creams, it may be a while away but were already planning something special :)

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Life on Ivy House Dairy Farm.... more to follow