moos from the farm
Our milk comes in glass bottles, delivered by a proper old-fashioned milkman. We’ve moved house three times in the last twelve years and stayed with the same dairy the whole time.
The milk we buy is organic, skimmed (mostly) with a couple of bottles of semi-skimmed for the kids. We also get a bottle of orange juice and a big carton of Yeo Valley yoghurt every Saturday.
I am very cost-conscious about our food budget. We have been having supermarket deliveries since selling our car, and because I quickly realised that spending £1.99 on delivery was nothing compared to what I would spend on impulse buys once I was wheeling a giant trolley around a shop. It is much cheaper to get a weekly delivery.
All our fruit and veg come from the local market. Good quality, very fresh, hardly any packaging. Cheap.
Back to the milk. Why organic? It does cost more. Well, call me old-fashioned, but I like to think that the milk, yoghurt and cheese that I buy comes from cows that are traditionally farmed on small-scale farms and with a minimum of medical (antibiotic) treatment.
I was delighted when I heard that Yeo Valley use homeopathic remedies to treat their cows, as part of their overall preventative health strategy! Wow!
It may come as a surprise that farmers use homeopathy – but they do. I don’t know any farmers personally, but I guess that they are pretty down-to-earth. If homeopathic treatment for their animals is cost-effective, and it works, what’s not to like? And the animals – well, I guess they don’t know any different, but that is simply more evidence against the ‘placebo’ argument.
Which reminds me of the time when I treated our cat with homeopathic remedies. But that is another story…
