'Produced in partnership with our Holstein cows'
Simon Jones, who started to make the multi-award winning Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese, is the fourth generation to be running the farm, which has been in the family since 1917. It is situated on the edge of the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds about ten miles from the east coast. The lush pastures sit on chalky land, which enables him to have a successful dairy herd in an area where dairy farms are very scarce and cheese making is virtually unknown.
The farm began dairying in 1970 with Simon’s father, Richard, but it wasn’t until Simon came back from agricultural college and needed something to get involved with, that he looked into the possibility of making cheese on a small scale. His research began with a cheese making course at Reaseheath college and visiting various cheese dairies in the South West. He then set up a small dairy of his own with a 1000 litre vat and with the help of Welsh cheese maker Dougal Campbell, who came armed with a tonic bottle of rennet and a sachet of starter, made his first batch of cheese on February 17th 1992.
