COFFEE SHOP MILK SPECIALIST BRADES FARM SECURES FUNDING FOR GROWTH
Brades Farm, an award-winning farming innovator, is set to expand its specialist barista milk business after securing a six-figure funding package.
Brades Farm, an award-winning farming innovator, is set to expand its specialist barista milk business after securing a six-figure funding package.
Joe and Ed Towers Win Dairy Innovators of the Year for their Barista Milk and Innovative Farming Practices.
After a nationwide search, we’ve found 13 young men and women who are transforming the farming, food and environmental sectors. They’re all 35 or under and are already making a massive difference. We’re confident that, over the coming years and decades, their influence will be huge. Quite simply, they will be game-changers.
In Lancashire’s rolling Lune Valley, brothers Joe and Edward Towers were hit hard by 2014-16’s falling milk prices, as the 350-acre family dairy farm haemorrhaged money. Their peers also struggled: in January 2014, there were 555 registered dairy farms in Lancashire, according to the AHDB. By December 2015, 35 had closed. “We weren’t a business; we needed a reason to be,” said Joe, a 26-year-old former coffee trader. “We had to take a gamble.” Spotting a growing niche market, the Towers’ spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on a new venture: supplying specialist milk with a high protein content to London’s artisan coffee shops.
