... Yeo Valley Organic Foods started the production of organic yoghurts way back in 1993, when they were first approached by a handful of local farmers who were producing organic milk, but had difficulty finding a consistent demand for it.

Something that’s essential as dairy cows produce milk 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!

The first organic product, a natural yogurt, was an instant success.

This encouraged Yeo Valley to look at the possibility of additional products, and also ways to encourage more farmers to become organic, so that an increasing supply of organic milk would become available to cope with growing demand.

All of the milk used in the Yeo Valley brand of yoghurts, creams, butter and cheese comes from 80 carefully selected farms in the South West.

This area is famed for the quality of its dairy produce.

Coming from local farms means the milk doesn’t have far to travel before it reaches our dairies.

This helps ensure its freshness and also achieves one of our objectives, which is to source products which have covered the minimum amount of ‘food miles’ before they end up in your shopping basket.

The farmers producing our milk are all members of OMSCo, which is the UK's leading organic milk marketing organisation.

OMSCo was formed in 1995 with just five local farms and the main aim of supplying Yeo Valley Organic.

Today it also includes farmers working throughout the country and supplies over 85% of the organic milk produced in the UK.