Cow With Wreath Our Christmas card to you this year, is a painting by Marily Valkijainen , of one of our own heifers. We are delighted to have Raido, and his talented family, back in our midst! We hope you will like it as much as we do. As eye catching as the front is, please remember […]
Radio Tees join our team members to understand the process of producing your organic milk and getting it to your doorstep. Adam Clarkson joined Colin at 5am on Thursday morning in the milking parlour and heard about the processes we follow to ensure the cows are happy and the milk is in excellent condition before it heads for […]
Come & Meet the Cows Producing your Organic Milk As part of Organic September we will be holding a series of open farm events for our doorstep and business customers again this year. It is a pleasure for us to meet you. Not many farmers get the opportunity to talk directly with those consuming the product […]
Come mid to later October we are hoping to have our new youngstock and milking cow sheds complete. Progress is good so far but the weeks are flying by. The weather and grass growth dictates when we need to bring the cows inside over night, so we want to be completed well in advance so there […]
Join the Award Winning Acorn Dairy farm team Vacancy for Herds Person on our growing, award winning, organic dairy unit near Darlington. Duties will include milking, calf rearing, AI, foot trimming an yard tractor work. Training will be provided but experience helps. Excellent opportunity to learn alongside an experienced team. Newly refurbished accommodation included, with […]
Join the Acorn Dairy Team. We are recruiting a Milkman and a Part Time Processing Plant Operative. Details below. Please share. Job Description- Acorn Dairy Full Time Milkman Man This role forms part of a six person night shift team delivering our milk and other goods to customers in the Darlington area six nights a week. You will […]
Muck Spreading at Last…and on an Epic Scale! Some residents on the western edge of Darlington may have already detected a change in the air, but for everybody else, we have starting spreading muck. For all the rain we had in December and the start of January, it has only taken 3 weeks of dry […]
Waiting on the Weather Like so many, we are waiting for a turn in the weather. A prolonged dry spell or good hard, prolonged (many days) frost is required to hardened the land and enable us to take tractors on to the grass land without doing more damage than good. We have a towering compost heap, […]
It was a surprise to hear we were nominated, let alone a finalist at these national awards. Graham headed down to Manchester to hear the results… “And the winner in the Best Dairy Category is….”Not Acorn Dairy”… Que polite clapping and smiling through gritted teeth! We do not get to know the judging parameters, but we lost to a […]
Acorn Dairy are taking orders now for Britain’s best selling diary… Keep yourself organised and inspired with the excellent Dairy Diary £7.99. We are delivering the info and order leaflets to all Acorn Dairy direct doorstep milk customers this coming week. If looking for useful gifts for family & friends there is the usual Gift Set £9.99 (which […]