Jill, Callum, Cameron & Eileen ClarkCrowdieCromalBlue skies over the Moray FirthOur clover-rich fieldsClava (Brie style)

Gold at the World Cheese Awards 2007 for our Clava and Bronze for our Crowdie. Runner up for the NFU Innovation Award 2007. Winners of the New Business and New Product categories at the Highland & Islands Food & Drink Awards. Gold 2 star for our Crowdie at the Great Taste Awards 2007.
Silver for our Dunlop at the Royal Highland Show 2007. Crowdie, Very Highly Commended 2007 Nantwich International Cheese show. Cromal, Bronze 2007 Nantwich International Cheese show. Bronze for our Dunlop at the 2007 Brtish Cheese Awards. Shortlisted 2007 Scottish Food & Drink Excellence Awards. Suppliers to the British Open at Carnoustie.

a traditional family-owned,
fully organic business…

Connage Highland Dairy is situated on our family farm, Milton of Connage at Ardersier. The farm was started by our father Hamish Clark and is now farmed by us - Callum & Cameron, Jill & Eileen.

We have an organic dairy herd of 130 cows, mostly Holstein Friesian with Jersey crosses and Norwegian Reds, which graze the luscious clover pastures around the dairy and along the shores of the Moray Firth, producing the milk we use for our delicious cheeses. We also keep breeding ewes, and grow arable and vegetable crops.

We constructed a state-of-the-art cheese dairy and, since January 2006, have been producing and selling a range of organic, handcrafted vegetarian cheeses, using traditional techniques.

All our products are fully traceable and we apply excellent quality controls from 'cow to cheese'. We can assure the highest standard of animal health, welfare and care for our cows, continuing the attention to detail into our cheeses.

Here’s why you’ll love our artisan dairy produce:

  • Our soft and hard cheeses include:
    • Clava (Brie style)
    • Dunlop
    • Cromal (a Traditional Farmhouse cheese)
    • Smoked Dunlop
    • Crowdie 
  • Our cows feast on a clover-rich diet, giving their milk a full and luscious taste
  • We use traditional techniques in state-of-the-art surroundings
  • All produce is 100% organic and 100% traceable

Here’s where you can buy our produce:

Online:

Coming soon! Don’t forget you can always purchase cheese direct from our dairy! While you are here, have a look through the observation windows into our production room, where you may be lucky enough to see the boys making cheese!

Inverness:

Crown Deli, Black Isle Farm Shop Fortrose, Highland Wholefoods, Bogbain, Leanne’s Larder

Beauly:

Corner on the Square, House of Beauly

Nairnshire:

Epicurus, Brodie Countryfare, Croy, Cawdor & Auldearn Shops, Macleod Organics Box Scheme, Ardersier

Elgin:

Gordon and MacPhail

Distributors

Williamsons, Summer Isles Foods, Clarks Speciality Fine Foods, Braehead Foods, Letterfinlay Foods, IJ Mellis Cheesemongers, JR Fine Foods, Lymekilns Cheese Company, Fife Creamery, Juniper Fine Foods

Shows attending in 2008

  • Real Food Festival London Stand P554, 24-27th April
  • Taste of Grampian visitors tent
  • Nairn Show 26th July
  • Moy Game Fair 1-2nd August
  • Turriff show 3-4th August
  • Black Isle Show 6-7th August
  • Grantown Show 14th August
  • Speciality Fine food Fair 7-9th London Olympia
  • Glasgow organic Food Festival 20-21st September
  • BBC Good Food show Glasgow 31st-2nd Nov

Tastings

  • Brodie Countryfare 2nd May
  • Gordon and MacPhail Elgin 5th May
  • The Store House, Foulis Ferry

News

We are providing cheese for the first ministers ceilidh in Brussels at the European Seafood Exposition (ESE)

Did you see Delia Smith's show at the beginning of April on BBC 2, where she used fresh curd cheese for her cheesecake. Crowdie is a fresh curd cheese and makes a wonderful cheese cake.

Shortlisted for the Waitrose Made in Britain Awards
Shortlisted Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards/ Retail

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