Downbarn Farm Educational Visits

22/05/2026

We also try to keep our carbon footprint low whilst keeping sustainable. It’s important to us to look after what we have, to run our business alongside nature - working with it not against it 🙂

As well as making England’s Cheddar, we’re dedicated to making our dairy “Green by Nature”, using biogas, solar energy and water recycling.

Our Anaerobic Digestor plant breaks down organic by-products from our cheesemaking, farmyard manure and waste from other local suppliers into natural, green energy. We use this electricity to power our cheesemaking and put the rest back into the grid to power our boilers and homes in the local towns and villages, to decarbonise the energy network.

20/05/2026

Last night we had a local scout group visit the farm. We had a tour of the farm and found out about milking cows, calves, silage and its process and then made butter to taste test with Wyke Farms cheese (a product that contains our milk) we enjoyed lamb cuddles and even saw a calf being born now aptly named Scout! Dorset National Landscape

19/05/2026

17/05/2026

Today we welcomed some volunteers to help with some Himalayan balsam removal. We made such great progress and are very grateful for their help!

16/05/2026

15/05/2026

This evening True to Your Art ran a workshop in the barn - think everyone did brilliantly!

15/05/2026

Well that turned out better than I expected 😂

13/05/2026

Calling all badge lovers! If you visit with your Scouting or Girlguiding group you can collect a badge for your camp blanket
We have a limited number of FREE visits each year that can be tailored to fit into your badge work. Get in touch today to see what we can offer your group 😃