Jeff, Carey & Adam Glynn-Jones
New House Farm
New House Farm is in the Welsh Marches, just on the Herefordshire side of the border on a south facing gentle slope of clay loam. For 26 years the Glyn-Jones family built up the September Herd of pedigree Friesians and created September Organic Ice Cream as a diversification enterprise, but sadly the entire milking herd was slaughtered due to a TB outbreak in May 2003.
It was a devastating experience and necessitated a complete rethink of the farm's direction.
Our son Adam, and his wife, took the moment as an opportunity to move the ice cream business to a neighbouring village, into premises that had scope for expansion, and started sourcing the dairy ingredients from another organic producer nearby. The delicious ice cream is still available from the September Organic Shop at Newhouse Farm, Graig Farm Organics, and nationwide; please visit www.september-organic.co.uk for further news on the ice cream. The name September often provokes questions. September is the month of harvest, of mists and mellow fruitfulness, of nature's bounty. By coincidence, it is also the month we made our first ice cream, and our first organic ice cream.
Back at the farm.... the transition is being made into an arable system with limited livestock enterprises. Now that the remaining calves have been sold, a few Hereford suckler cows are being introduced and a small flock of the local breed of Ryalnd sheep; hopefully their offspring will feed into the Graig Farm supply chain in due course. Crops include bread-making wheat, potatoes, carrots, tritcale to feed the expanding poultry flock, and even a brief encounter with some lupins!
Other avenues of sustainability are being explored at Newhouse Farm and further information on these exciting developments can be found at www.countrysole.org.uk.
