It pretty difficult to get Raw milk in England. Only place you can get it is farmers markets once a week or direct from the farms that specialise in raw milk, and there are hardly any….we are talking a handful of farms in a country with a population of 57 million. So it’s tricky and hard to find. Took me a lot of investigations to find a regular supply and I must drive 20-40 mins each way to get it every weekend, location varies each weekend too, just to keep me on me toes.

Raw milk is unpasteurised and unhomogenized and no mucking about changing things or adding things. I would call that “straight out of the cow,” if that’s what you mean then yes, raw milk is straight out of the cow and no monkeying about.

Important things to consider with raw milk, because it’s not just “raw milk” you want…..its “raw milk from pasture fed cows” that you really want. But people selling raw milk….they should generally know this and practice this.

The health of the cow directly affects the quality of the milk.
The quality of the cows diet directly affects the health of the cow and hence the quality of the milk.

Today, normal regular cows are battery farmed, hardly ever see the light of day, are fed diets not suited to cows. A cow’s natural/ideal diet is grass, simple really and certainly not rocket science….cows eat grass and if the diet deviates from grass they get sick. Cows fed grain, soya, slops, chicken $hit or all the other nasties they are force feed….just make cows sick and produce poor quality milk. Add to that, never seeing the light of day, never walking about outside soaking up the sun…unhealthy cows and unhealthy milk. Sick cows need vaccinations, antibiotics…blah de blah de blah….

Regular dairy farmers are paid on the quantity of milk they produce, and not quality.

Battery farmed cows live 15 months-ish, then they are turned into hamburgers and people eat the meat from these poor sick beasts. Lovely thought eh?

Pasture fed cows live 12-15 years.

It is not rocket science.

Feed a human junk food, his teeth fall out, he gets real fat and unhealthy needs constant medical attention and dies early. Ditto cows.

Companies that sell raw milk are small local family run business’s. They love their cows, if you buy some at the store, there will be a telephone number to call from the owners. I called my farmers and they talked at length and you could tell they where proud of what they sold. They where proud to have happy health cows…they invited me up to see them. I will go and see them in august when I am over that way on holiday.

I do not eat any pasteurised dairy products.

The milk/cheese/butter from raw milk from cow fed grass tastes absolutely fantastic and makes the hassle of getting it well worth while. Nice to know I am not poisoning my family too and that it’s actually good for you. Did you know that if you have a milk allergy that raw milk is fine and will not give you symptoms/problems.