Members Spotlight: Cows of Covington

Cows of Covington Milk Hut

Hillhead of Covington is a dairy farm milking 400 Holstein cows located between Tinto Hill and the river Clyde in South Lanarkshire. The Baillie Family have been faming here for over 25 years

​The family have always enjoyed the fresh milk that is produced on the farm but have increasing found that it bears less resemblance to the milk available to the majority of people.

 Proper fresh milk has been losing its appeal, being overly processed; high temperature pasteurising, standardising, homogenising, filtering, skimming off the cream and often 5 days old before getting to the customer having travelled many, many, miles around the country.

 Alternative milks were gaining in popularity and being shipped worldwide. The family wanted to create the Cows of Covington brand to provide proper fresh whole milk straight to the local community. They have created a range of milk shake flavours which change regularly and comprise of flavours ranging from vanilla and strawberry to chocolate orange and banoffee. They also stock Local free range eggs from Hillwood Farm Biggar. They are passionate about supporting  local farmers

 Their milk vending machines are located in Brownlies of Biggar and at The Milk Hut at Hillhead of Covington.