Acorn Dairy are looking for their next new team members. Three New Positions to start end May/ early June. Join our growing company. All roles require good mental maths, a full driving licence and polite, approachable personality. All roles are very active and involve heavy lifting. ***Doorstep Delivery Person *** Salary £15,000 +bonus […]
Join the Acorn Dairy Organic Cows Dancing into the Fields Autumn 2017 was kind and the cows were able to graze into the second week of November – almost unheard of. However this was followed by the other extreme of unseasonably cold and wet weather across the country and a late spring. The grass simply […]
Acorn Dairy Win National Accolade The fourth annual Food Awards England welcomed 300 guests at the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel on Monday, October 2nd in a celebration of the English food industry. The Food Awards England recognise the success of national professionals and catering establishments. The winners are a true reflection of high standard and customer service as […]
Customer Open Days Once again we are opening the farm to you, our customers, this September and look forward to showing you how your milk is produced. Come and meet the ladies & calves. This year we will be opening the bottling plant, so you can follow the process your milk takes into its bottle and see where your butter is churned. […]
Fresh from the hills of Kelso, the new Aberdeen Angus Bull is looking good to Acorn Dairy’s organic heifers. We mentioned the need for a new bull in your Spring newsletter. Our dairy shorthorn heifers are relatively small compared their Holstein counterparts and as such we do not want a socking great big bull crushing them with his award […]
Our Christmas Day heifer calf is doing very well. Clementine was named by the Acorn Dairy doorstep milk customers in a Facebook campaign. Here she is at one day old also now aged six weeks, with Raido who cares for all our calves and young stock. Clementine receives the same high welfare care and attention […]
What started as a little piece of news on your doorstep milk bills, has built up more momentum than we expected! Antibiotics in food production must be reduced. Lots in the press on this. Here we have reduced the, already very low, somatic cell counts (infection indicators) in our herd by a further 20% following the introduction […]
Acorn Dairy director Graham Tweddle offers one of the organic herd a snifter of apple cider vinegar which is helping to boost their immune systems DRY January will be leaving the herd unmoo-ved as they turn to the humble apple to fortify themselves against infection. Organic milkers at Acorn Dairy are thriving on a tipple […]
We are recruiting a Milkman to look after customers in Barnard Castle & Darlington £ 18,000 Night Shifts Job Description- Acorn Dairy Full Time Milk Delivery Person This job forms part of a six person night shift team delivering our milk and other items to customers in Darlington & Barnard Castle six nights a week. You will be delivering up to 400 customers a night. Hours […]
Help us Name our Christmas Day Heifer Calf Our expected Christmas Day arrival was born on cue. In the early hours, while Santa Claus was at his work, a super heifer calf arrived. Mum and daughter doing very well, making it a very Happy Christmas for us. It is some years since Cranberry arrived on 25th Dec […]