Chef Emily Watkins celebrates Nell’s Dairy with dinner at The Kingham Plough

Unsurprisingly, as my children have grown up on the Nell’s Dairy milk, they do not like supermarket milk. Adam and Caroline Fleming’s milk is treated with such care that it retains all of the goodness and flavour which can be lost when milk is pasteurised with modern methods.

The flavour of Nell’s Dairy Guernsey milk is so delicious – sweet, creamy, rich – that we immediately started using it for all of our desserts at the pub, from our homemade ice creams through to a la carte dishes such as baked custard.

I have since developed dishes around the milk to celebrate it, such as Guernsey milk and borage honey jelly with blackberry granita and wood sorrel.

We have known Adam and Caroline Fleming from Nell’s Dairy for many years, and then moved into a farmhouse on their farm in the Cotswolds, right next door to what was then the disused dairy.

Five years ago, the Flemings decided to introduce a selected herd of Guernseys back on to the farm for their milk.

As a result we are living the ‘Good Life’ and the children drop our gallon container over to the dairy two to three times a week, meaning we get through up to 14 litres a week!

About a year after the Guernseys were introduced to the farm, Adam and Caroline told us about the amazing traditional vending machines they had come across in Europe, which dispense fresh milk, making it readily available for customers.

We felt very privileged when they asked if they could install the first one at our pub, making the milk accessible not just to our customers but also the locals in the village and neighbouring villages – some people come from miles away to buy it.

Sourcing locally has always been of much importance at The Kingham Plough. I have great relationships with our suppliers.

This way we get the freshest produce and most of our vegetables are picked to order and will be on the menu the same evening.

We have full traceability of all of our meat and buy only sustainable fish, the majority of which comes from the South Coast.

So many people ask me about the health benefits of the organic Guernsey milk that I thought it would be interesting to hear it directly from the experts and meanwhile do what I do best; put together a menu incorporating milk into every course, not necessarily as people would expect it.

So, on Wednesday, Adam will be giving a talk about the amazing health benefits of their independently produced and sold, organic Guernsey milk.

It will take place at The Kingham Plough, and after the talk, guests will then be treated to a three-course dinner using Nell’s Dairy milk.

For example the starter features homemade cheese made from the milk.

I know so many children whose lives have been changed by their intolerances to milk being conquered by switching to organic Guernsey milk.

I don’t know anyone who has tried it and not immediately said how delicious it is so I hope the event on Wednesday will spread the word.

*Nell’s Dairy Guernsey Milk The Amazing Health Benefits talk by Adam Fleming & Dinner is on Wednesday, November 11. £30.

The Kingham Plough, The Green, Kingham, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 6YD.

thekinghamplough.co.uk 01608 658327.