This week I was lucky enough to spend an hour or so talking with Jonny from Fen Farm Dairy. Regretfully not in person, having googled the fastest possible route it would still take me about 5 hours from the Shire to Bungay in Suffolk, pah!  So, we scheduled a phone call with me sitting at the kitchen table and Jonny standing on a wall at his farm – apparently where the best mobile signal is! Where it all started: From a small boy Jonny dreamt of one job and one job only – to be a dairy farmer.  Thankfully the

Why did you become a Cheese maker? We became cheesemakers when my Grandfather (maternal) bought the estate in 1911. Cheese making was already happening here when he bought it, as it was on almost all farms in Somerset producing more than a households worth of milk. To say that we have simply carried on since then is too simple. All farmhouse cheddar production was banned during the Second World War so a decision had to be made to restart, in a new era when the milk could be sold easily. Luckily Grandfather enjoyed the challenges of making cheese. For you