Our Story
Welcome to Buckwell Lodge! We're the Hunt family and have been farming here since the 1940's. For better or for worse, we do things a little bit differently to everyone else!
Soil
Farming organically, we aim to build healthy soils that can support a wide range of biodiversity and grow healthy, nutrient-dense food that is free from pesticides and herbicides. Our cows graze herbal leys, fields full of all sorts of different plants that can provide different nutrients and build up our soils.
Truly free-range
Gone are the days of bringing the cows in for milking! Our cows are milked by robots and are able to able to milk themselves or head out to grass whenever they want! Usually they'll get milked about three times per day and graze three different paddocks in between. Everything is done at their own speed which makes for happy cows and the very best milk!!
Calves
Rather than being reared up on milk powder, our calves stop with an adopted mother (4 calves to each cow) for about 4 months. This gives them the very best start in life and you'll often see them skipping around the fields when you drive past in the summer!
Raw milk
We believe in nutritious, local, unprocessed food. Raw milk is a great example of that! You might have heard lots of different opinions about raw milk online. Some people worry about the increased risk of eating food that hasn't been sterilised but then they also drive a car every day...
What really matters is how that risk is managed and whether the benefits outweigh that! At Buckwell Organic follow a strict food safety management system to ensure that the milk you drink is produced hygienically. We are inspected two times per year by the Food Standard Agency and perform regular testing to ensure that our milk is safe to drink.
Benefits of drinking raw milk
Raw milk has a reputation as a superfood! For a start it is much fresher; after processing, supermarket milk can be 7-14 days old before it ends up in your fridge. Supermarket milk is ‘homogenised’ (a process that smashes up the fat globules, preventing a layer of cream from forming at the top of the bottle). Raw milk on the other hand does not go through this process and it is suggested that it is therefore much easier to digest. Raw milk contains many natural enzymes which help us to utilise all the nutrients available in the milk, heat treatment (pasteurisation) destroys the vast majority of these enzymes. It contains a full range of vitamins and minerals which can become insoluble in the process of heat treatment.