5 best raw milk farms in Kent

Park Farm Brasted
Westerham · Raw milk, farm shop4.9 · 314 reviewsPark Farm is a third generation dairy farm at Brasted, near Westerham in Kent, farmed by the Edgar family and trading as Edgar and Son. The farm milks pedigree Jersey cows and produces raw milk, pasteurised milk and ice cream using sustainable farming practices. Milk is sold from the vending machine at the farm, open every day from 8am to 6pm. The farm also hosts school visits and offers catering, and larger orders can be arranged by phone or email.
Winterdale Cheesemakers
Sevenoaks · Raw milk, farm shop4.8 · 40 reviewsWinterdale Cheesemakers hand makes Winterdale Shaw, a traditional cheddar style cheese, using unpasteurised milk from the family's own dairy farm high on the North Downs above the village of Wrotham in Kent. The Betts family have farmed since 1495 and set up the dairy in 1950; Robin and Carla Betts began cheesemaking in the 2000s, and the cheese is cloth bound and matured for ten months in cellars built into the chalk downs. Everything is made carbon neutrally using the farm's own green energy from the sun, wind and ground, and the cheese has been supplied to names from Fortnum and Mason to Wimbledon and The Goring Hotel. The Cheese Barn on Platt House Lane opens every Saturday morning from 10am to 2pm, where visitors can watch the cheesemaking, peek into the maturing cave and buy raw milk, raw cream, raw milk cheese and butter. The family also sells raw cows milk and cheese at Shipbourne farmers market on Thursday mornings.
Cheesemakers of Canterbury
Faversham · Raw milk, farm shop5.0 · 8 reviewsCheesemakers of Canterbury is a small artisan creamery at Lamberhurst Farm in Dargate, near Faversham in Kent. Jane Bowyer founded the business in 2007 after more than twenty years in the dairy trade, refurbishing the old dairy at the farm and making the first Ashmore Farmhouse cheddars that May. The recipe came from a retiring cheesemaking couple in Wiltshire, and every batch is still made by hand in the traditional way. The Ashmore cheeses are made from the unpasteurised milk of British Friesian cows, collected in the dairy's own tanker from nearby Debden Farm in Petham, and Kelly's Canterbury Goat is a hard goat's cheese made with local milk from Ellie's Dairy in Wychling. A growing range of soft cow's, goat's and sheep's cheeses sits alongside them. The cheeses are sold through the online shop, at The Goods Shed in Canterbury, and at open days held at the Dargate dairy.
Kingcott Dairy
Tonbridge · Raw milk, farm shop4.5 · 8 reviewsKingcott Dairy is a family run dairy farm at Staplehurst in the heart of Kent, milking a herd of Viking Red cows that spend the grazing season out on clover rich pastures. It is a traditional, gentle way of dairying, with cow longevity and milk quality valued above high yields, and the cows are fed home grown grass and maize silage with just a little cow nut in the parlour. Raw, unhomogenised milk is sold from the vending machine at the farm's milk box, in a glass bottle or one you bring yourself, with contactless payment. Alongside the milk there is a selection of Kentish cheeses including the dairy's own Kentish Blue and Kingcott Blue, which also sell through the online shop.
Ridley Court Farm
Sevenoaks · Raw milkRidley Court Farm sells raw milk straight from its own well cared for cows at Ridley Hill, near Sevenoaks. The milk is unpasteurised, keeping its natural character, and some of it goes into the farm's own homemade ice cream, sold alongside the bottles. The farm gate offering stretches beyond dairy, with logs for the fire, local apple juices, pottery and greeting cards also on sale. It is open every day around the clock, so you can call in whenever you run low.

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