‘I’m a third generation dairy farmer. My grandfather was a dairy farmer, my dad is still a dairy farmer, and I joined the business as soon as I left school,’ says Jonny Crickmore. Jonny has been working at Fen Farm for over twenty years now. By necessity, the dairy must be treated as a business, but it doesn’t take long to realise that Fen Farm is so much more than that to Jonny and his family. ‘I always used to come up here and work weekends for pocket money when I was little,’ he says.
In the last few years, Fen Farm has become well-known for the delicious Baron Bigod – the only raw milk Brie de Meaux-style cheese made in the UK, and still one of only a few made in the world. Although the Crickmores have been dairy farming for nigh on a century, it’s only recently that they opened their eyes to the idea of cheesemaking. The start of that journey, says Jonny, came from their idea of selling raw milk directly from the farm. ‘People were coming two, three, sometimes four times a week to Fen Farm to buy our milk, simply because it tasted better than shop-bought,’ says Jonny. ‘That’s what first showed us that there was a demand for better quality milk out there. Rather than looking at quantity, we started concentrating on quality.’
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