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Milk

The cows that give C1 our milk aren’t your usual stay-at-home cows. They’re nomads.

They’re attached to a milkshed with wheels. Every few months the herd moves to a new section of land.

C1 is interested in sustainable farming. Farming, particularly dairy farming, has a huge environmental impact on the planet, particularly in terms of nitrate leaching and emissions.

The mobile milking system mitigates that impact, and Glen Herud, who developed the mobile milking system, reckons it has the potential to become completely sustainable and carbon neutral. We think that's awesome.

The milk the cows give us is a bit different, too.

You might notice that the milk in your coffee has a richer, fuller flavour than the milk you’re used to.

That’s because it’s much less processed than supermarket milk. Standard milk is pasteurised, homogenised and standardised.

Pasteurisation (heating the milk to a high temperature to kill bacteria) is essential to prevent illness – raw milk is one of the biggest causes of food-borne illnesses. So C1 milk is always pasteurised.

Homogenisation and standardisation are less essential. The former means breaking up the rich cap of cream and suspending it in tiny beads throughout the milk. The latter means separating the milk into parts, like fat and protein, and combining them back into a mixture of pre-set proportions.

These two processes allow big milk companies to regulate their product, but they completely change the taste of the milk. 

So the milk we use at C1 is not standardised or homogenised, just pasteurised, which means it’s naturally higher in protein and fat. It’s got a richer, fuller taste, just like what you’d taste on the farm.