Christmas 2017 Ahimsa Newsletter – Posted in: Updates

Dear Friends, Well here we are at the end of 2017 and what a year it has been. Mostly highs, the few inevitable lows, but throughout your support has been humbling, heart-warming and fabulous. We have some ideas for our friends, members and sponsors next year and more of that shortly. The highlight of the year was finally exchanging contracts on own new, organic land nestled between the beautiful villages of Wing and Manton in…

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The hazards of trying to run a micro dairy – Posted in: News, Updates

An ugly acronym – HACCP – is just as unpleasant when it is spelt out. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point is a formal and systematic food safety system that is used to control risks in the food industry and it is blighting our lives. We fully accept the need for safe procedures when producing and processing our milk, but from being a micro-dairy we are now in the hell of micro-management of our entire…

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A Rollercoaster of a Few Months at the Ahimsa Dairy – Posted in: News, Updates

It has been a challenging end to 2015 for the Ahimsa Dairy and oxen. For a long time we have been planning to move our milking cows from the Kent Commonwork Farm to our Groby (Leicestershire) neighbour’s farm, where we would set up our mobile milking unit. Our Groby site land is without electricity – which we need for the processing of milk – so the arrangement with our neighbour had solved that problem for…

Gaia-The Earthly Deity. – Posted in: Cow Talk, General, Uncategorized, Updates

Gaia is the Greek goddess who personified the earth. She is considered a Mother Goddess. Her name comes from two elements. “Ge” meaning “Earth” and “Aia” meaning “Grandmother.” This name was revived by author James Lovelock in 1979 in his book entitled: “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth.” His hypothesis proposes that living organisms and inorganic material are part of a dynamic system that shapes the Earth’s biosphere and maintains the Earth as…