milk vending machine

[Daniel]

We have done (although not in glass bottles!) no reason we couldn't again, we just haven't really pushed it in this past year. We had a good service from the courier but got a bit messed about when they got too busy this time last year.

I would be interested, we are near Ely, the nearest raw milk supplier I know of is near the Suffolk coast, but as our farm was a dairy farm when I was a kid, the supermarket stuff leaves quite a lot to be desired!

 

[delilah]

https://www.facebook.com/LandWorkersAlliance/posts/4429914277102228

 

[Courier]

You don't need a vending machine to sell glass bottles, nor are glass bottles the complete answer.
I don't know who's post that is but it's going some to sell 9500 litres of milk a week. In our experience, very few bottles come back for a refill which makes them worse than plastic for the environment.

When we started using glass on the doorstep in the early 80's we needed to replace them on a monthly basis - We were getting 30 + trips per bottle.

By 2000 a glass bottle was doing well if it managed more than 2 trips ( Completely non viable) but by then Poly was unversal in Supermarkets and the "Big Dairies" had persuaded their employed milkmen to re-mortgage their houses and buy the "Doorstep Goodwill" from their supplying dairy before supplying the Supermarkets direct and destroying the value of that "Goodwill" and leaving ex-roundsmen in dire financial straits.

Hey - Ho . Such is life....

 

[jimmer]

Where has this thread been hiding????

 

[upnortheast]

https://www.facebook.com/LandWorkersAlliance/posts/4429914277102228

Looks like it features @onesiedale

 

[delilah]

Looks like it features @onesiedale

yeah I thought he'd like some folks from here on it rather than just the 5 cow herds from the LWA .

 

[coomoo]

@Thomas-milmain exciting time’s

 

[Milkcow365]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=109108128364126&id=105201188754820

 

[coomoo]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=109108128364126&id=105201188754820

We’re away for a few days to a lodge and hot tub, opened the fridge and there was a glass pint of ice cold milk to meet us really good idea to suggest to park imo if don’t already.

 

[upnortheast]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=109108128364126&id=105201188754820

That looked a big spot when I was past last year
Are you pasteurising, / homoganising ?

 

[Milkcow365]

That looked a big spot when I was past last year
Are you pasteurising, / homoganising ?

Yes it’s a great holiday park! Owner’s are very good to work with. Just pasteurising all very new so big learning curve ahead!

 

[upnortheast]

Yes it’s a great holiday park! Owner’s are very good to work with. Just pasteurising all very new so big learning curve ahead!

So is the vending machine one where you take the churn & the punter brings / buys a bottle ?
Batch pasteuriser ?

 

[Beef farmer]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=109108128364126&id=105201188754820

Just Google earthed the area. Looks like a big site.

Big job on the wall too by the looks of it.

 

[Milkcow365]

Just Google earthed the area. Looks like a big site.

Big job on the wall too by the looks of it. View attachment 1016484

Site has grown a lot in last 2/3 years, don’t miss much do you beefy

 

[Courier]

Yes it’s a great holiday park! Owner’s are very good to work with. Just pasteurising all very new so big learning curve ahead!

A captive market such as that site should be good for getting glass back - Oh, and try to avoid getting into the extra costs of homogenisation. You are not looking at mass markets, educate folk to your niche.

 

[Milkcow365]

So is the vending machine one where you take the churn & the punter brings / buys a bottle ?
Batch pasteuriser ?

That’s correct, yes a batch job, all the stuff is on way it’s been on the go for 8/9 months takes some time to get all these things together as we all know.

 

[Whitewalker]

Yes it’s a great holiday park! Owner’s are very good to work with. Just pasteurising all very new so big learning curve ahead!

It’s all about familiarisation, once you get into it and can pencil enough time to do it properly, a few months and a routine and you’ll be flying.

 

[Milkcow365]

It’s all about familiarisation, once you get into it and can pencil enough time to do it properly, a few months and a routine and you’ll be flying.

Thank you.

 

[onesiedale]

A captive market such as that site should be good for getting glass back - Oh, and try to avoid getting into the extra costs of homogenisation. You are not looking at mass markets, educate folk to your niche.

and don't offer semi skimmed!
Whole milk only

 

[dinderleat]

and don't offer semi skimmed!
Whole milk only

He’s 3x a day www