We've been a customer of Acorn Dairy for about 8 years, and I feel very privillaged that we have a local (and organic) farm still making door step deliveries.
They are an excellent family run business, we get weekly updates on the bill on whats going on down the farm, keeping you in touch with farming trials and tribulations and where your milk comes from. They also run open days and local walks. They have also been involved in organic milk research through Newcastle university.
The milk is excellent, they also sell via the deliveries all manor of other produce which you preorder. We buy local organic eggs through them.
They have cows at the local dairy location in Darlington, and also at pastures in Wenslydale.
Last year they converted some of this milk into a limited edition Wenslydale cheese, made at Hawes, and was available only through them or the local cheese and wine shop in Darlington.
To cut costs and excess miles they do not deliver daily, depending on where you live it might be bi-weekly, which is fine , we get milk on Fridays and Mondays to last us the week.And for example this was still the case this Easter on both bank holidays.
Milk is still delivered in glass bottles which are returned. In the early days it was suggested that they delivered in plastic, but I think this was dropped by public opinion, the cost went up to enable them to deliver in glass, but thats what people wanted. They deliver to local businesses and the local supermarkets in plastic containers.