Longleys Farm has been certified organic since 2000. Organic isn't a label we bought — it's a way of farming that shapes our soil, our herd and every bottle of milk we sell.
What organic certification means
Being certified organic means we farm to a strict, independently inspected standard. In practice that means:
- No synthetic pesticides or artificial fertilisers on our land.
- High animal-welfare standards — space, pasture and natural behaviour.
- No routine antibiotics — animals are treated when genuinely ill, not as a routine.
- Organic feed — our cows live on organic grass and clover.
- Annual inspection by a certifying body to keep our status.
It starts with the soil
Good milk starts long before the cow. Organic farming treats the soil as a living system — feeding it with clover, manure and rotation rather than synthetic inputs. Healthy soil grows diverse, mineral-rich pasture, and that pasture feeds the herd that makes the milk. Get the soil right and everything downstream follows.
We don't farm the cow; we farm the grass, and the grass feeds the cow.
Welfare we can stand behind
Our herd grazes outdoors through the season and is housed comfortably with organic forage in winter. Calves are reared with care — which is why we can offer ethical rose veal rather than treating male calves as waste. It is a whole-system approach: nothing is pushed to its limit, and nothing is wasted.
Why it matters for your milk
Organic, grass-fed farming gives milk with real flavour and a clear provenance — you know exactly which farm and which fields it came from. Combined with our refusal to pasteurise or homogenise, it's why our raw milk tastes the way it does.
Read more about what raw milk is, or meet the farm in our story.
Taste real raw milk
We deliver living, grass-fed organic raw milk across East Sussex and UK-wide.