Category: Farm Update

Our license has come through!

We’ve been busy getting the factory ready and now we’re so close to calling the inspectors.

The big job we’ve been working on recently is the refrigeration systems

A recent article in The Guardian ‘Drought and low milk prices push dairy farmers to the brink’ got me rather riled up.

We’ve been heads down getting this business off the ground but this last week I’ve started thinking of the big picture again.

I’ve unintentionally created a positive feedback loop.

A key component to Sellar Farmhouse Creamery is to develop and manage silvopasture landscapes; an integrated system where trees and pasture are managed to raise livestock.

Modern dairy tends to involve rather complex engineering and use lots of energy. A micro dairy is not necessarily much less complicated. I am trying to creatively (re)use available materials and renewable energy to help Sellar Dairy move toward a vision of sustainable and regenerative farming.

Reflecting on Oli’s on farm accident; farming is a dangerous career choice.

We start the management of the picnic gully block, which unfortunately from a grazing perspective, was way over our heads in gorse, briar rose, wild plums and black berries.