DORAS DAIRY

We are a fourth generation farming family that started when Jonathan's great grandmother, Sarah, began to milk cows with her husband "Gaffer" Gleed in the late 1800s at Park Gate Farm in Purton. His grandfather Stanley, born in 1905, continued to work the farm, milking 12 cows until 1953 when he moved his family and the cows to Quarry Farm. John William Cook (not to be confused with Jonathan Cook) took over the running of the farm after he left school and installed an abreast milking parlour much to the disgust of his father who said "milking machines will never catch on!" He increased the size of the herd and invested in modern equipment to improve the efficiency of the farm. We still use the same parlour today which equates to over 39,400 milkings and 1,577,000 cows milked in the parlour! After many years of working on the farm alongside his dad, Jon picked up the reins when his father became ill in 2011 and sadly passed away in 2012.

Primary location: Swindon United Kingdom