The local link to your latte

Discover what your cup of Nescafé owes to the careful practices of places like Cumbria’s Dolphenby farm

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“I love mornings,” says 36-year-old dairy farmer Jonny Slack of Dolphenby Farm in Cumbria, where he looks after some 500 cows. “On a normal day it's a five o'clock start, and the first job is always to milk the cows and make sure they're all fed and happy. That takes until about 8am, and then we'll go and grab some breakfast.”

Dolphenby supplies milk for Nestlés Nescafé range of frothy coffees, produced just 20 miles down the road at its Dalston factory.

The secret to helping cows produce high-quality milk lies in high-quality grass and soil, Jonny explains. “One thing we're really good at in Cumbria is growing grass, and we let our cows graze on it for as long in the year as we can.”