We are non traditional organic cheesemakers based in the Blackmore Vale South Somerset – best known for Renegade Monk, our multi award winning, organic, ale-washed artisan cheese made with a local cow’s milk – it won Supreme Champion at the #VirtualCheeseAwards 2020– but that’s not the whole story. We now make Rebel Nun, Gert Lush, La Fresca Margarita, and Lucky Marcel – all with two stars in the Great Taste Awards – and Lucky Marcel won Supreme Champion at the World Cheese Awards 2024 – one of only 6 British cheeses to do so.

We aim to be as sustainable as possible, running our smallholding on 40KW of solar panels, ground source heat pumps, and using our rare breed Iron Age pigs to eat our waste whey. We raise trees (1500 planted since 2015), sheep – and three children – and we are now fully certified organic with the Soil Association.

We support local food shops such as Durslade Farm Shop, Kimber’s Farm Shop, Truckle Truck, Udder Farm Shop, Teal’s Farm Shop, Bill the Butcher’s in Bruton, Fine Cheese in Bath and local food networks such as Somerset Food Trail, and Lucas Hollweg and Lucie Reader’s On the Spoon. We also visit or send our cheese to London Farmer Markets in Notting Hill, Parliament Hill, Queen’s Park, Twickenham and Wimbledon, as well as the ALL organic Growing Communities market in Stoke Newington.

We welcome people from across the globe to work with us on the land through the ecotourism organisation WWOOF. And if you don’t want to work, our holiday cottage and cabin are available 365 days a year for farm stays, weekending and minibreaks. You can see the Cabin here and the Cottage here (but do book direct with us!). We are Superhosts on Airbnb in 2024 and 2025.

Our products and our farm stay express our openness to diversity, cultural curiosity and first class professional values.

NEWS : In 2025 Wells Food Festival on Sunday 12 October won us Best Cheese. Having been up since 6am every day that week, we were delighted – there’s nothing like a judge saying “Well Done!” and presenting you with a certificate to give you an endorphin hit, and make it all worthwhile…

Feltham’s Farm is a certified organic farm. We aspire to be as sustainable and eco-friendly as possible and we put animal welfare, biodiversity, sustainability and nutritional value at the heart of our farm. We don’t spray our land with pesticides or forever chemicals. We make our own hay to use as both feed and bedding for our animals rather than buying in hay and straw of unknown provenance. We have planted over 1,500 native species trees to promote biodiversity, provide shade for our animals and to soak up water from our marshland, whilst also creating a couple of fens to bring in specialist marshland birds. It’s a lot of work but we wouldn’t have it any other way.

We also set up the Organic Cheesemakers’ Network to raise awareness of the additional issues that we all face – we farm regeneratively BUT we are also audited annually (and pay for it). We definitely don’t use glyphosate (unlike many regenerative farmers), for many reasons not least it’s probably carcinogenic to humans.

We currently make five organic cheeses (all labels designed by the magnificent Jem Panufnik – Renegade Monk, Rebel Nun, La Fresca Margarita, and Gert Lush. Renegade Monk is a multi award winning soft blue cheese, washed in organic ale from Stroud Brewery. Using artisan techniques to a newly developed recipe, the Monk is labour intensive, requiring washing every few days, and is mature after four weeks. Rebel Nun is the sister cheese to the Monk, and is perceived as being milder and creamier than the Monk. La Fresca Margarita is a Queso Fresco inspired by our travels in Latin America. Tasting as good with honey and figs as it does on the side with salad or tortilla and won Best British Cheese at the #VirtualCheeseAwards2021.

Sustainability matters to us, so our Cheese barn is powered by ground source heating and solar panels, rainwater is harvested from the roof to give to our animals and we deliver our cheeses by electric van.

Our two-bedroom organic cabin is available to let throughout the year. It sleeps four adults and comes with all the mod cons you’d expect, including WiFi, polished concrete floor and squishy designer sofa. Next door is a smaller two-bedroom cottage, which is great if you are two families wishing to be together but accommodate separately. With all the activity on the farm (feeding sheep, pigs, sometimes chickens if the fox has not got them) and in the cheese room, it’s the perfect place to stay for a weekend or longer and is an ideal base from which to explore the West Country. Bristol and the Jurassic Coast are within an hour’s drive and London is just two hours away (we’re also well-served by Templecombe train station). Heating and electricity all comes from ground source and solar panels, so you can relax confident you are not destroying the planet. We have a 25m x 25m rainwater swimming pond which is perfect for the really hot weather…and plans for a sauna for 2026.