Langage story

Langage Farm have our own herd of Jersey and Guernsey cows LOVINGLY FED on our LOCAL FARM

Langage story

Langage Farm have our own herd of Jersey and Guernsey cows LOVINGLY FED on our LOCAL FARM

how it all began...

“Langage Farm has remained a working farmstead for over 900 years in the rolling Devonshire countryside. In 1980 the Harvey family started to produce our world-famous clotted cream from our Jersey and Guernsey cows for a nearby shop. From that moment, our name has been synonymous with delicious Devon products…a little Heaven from Devon – udderly delicious.”

James Harvey

our timeline...

The Harvey family have been making our products for many years

11th Century

The tradition of eating bread with cream and a preserve was started at Tavistock Abbey.

1086

Langage (Langehewis) is valued at 10 shillings and contains 1.5 plough lands (180 acres) of land, 2 acres of meadow and 10 acres of woodland. The Lord’s name is Leofric.

langage farm history

1948

We moved to Lower Lutton farm and our very first Jersey Cow was purchased!  

1959

With the trip to Plymouth being too far the family in those days, we moved to a new 93-acre site called Langage Farm, purchasing it off of a mutual friend Mr Honey.  

1964

James Harvey, our current managing partner, is born.  

1980

Our very first pot of Jersey cream was sold! To test the market, Grandparents Len and Buff spent £7 on a box of cartons and borrowed a small separator, the young lady who was employed to feed the calves changed roles and became our first salesperson visiting local shops!  

langage farm history

1983

Our Grandmother Buff, a very keen cook, gradually developed other products, she was only interested in making the best and most luxurious products she could. She developed our famous clotted cream, yoghurts, ice cream, cottage cheese, soft cheese etc, many of these recipes are still in use today! Grandad Len’s job was to provide the necessary equipment, work out costs and then the sale price! 

langage farm history

1988

We opened our first farm shop at the old farm site, then moved the following year to a new building at the Langage Farm site.  

1990’s

Langage products started going national!  Our London sales team managed to get frozen yoghurt on sale in Sloane Square in London!  Local Tesco’s also first started buying our ice cream and cream!  

langage farm history

1994

Current youngest family member working in the business, Ben, was born!  

langage farm history

2003

We built a new factory at Challonsleigh to handle our expanding business and because the old farm was purchased to build what is now the Langage Power Station, we moved all production from the old site to where we are now. 

2008

Next to our new factory we built our award-winning Anaerobic Digestion Power Plant to produce clean and green electricity for the farm and the national grid!  

langage farm history

2010’s

We have been producing award-winning products sold in many supermarkets and continuing to innovate our products with a special in-house Product Development team.  

langage farm history

2016

Concerned about the amount of plastic waste being produced in the world we decided to take a risk and start producing some of our products in glass jars (glass being infinitely recyclable and also reusable at home) this has since gone on to becoming one of our best-selling products and the range is expanding!  

LANGAGE FARM A.D. PLANT

From field to fridge…and back again!  

Did you know we are the first UK carbon neutral dairy with an Anaerobic Digestion facility (AD) generating electricity from food waste which supplies the Farm and Dairy with its energy needs? We also produce green energy that goes back into the National Grid to supply homes with the power to boil a kettle for their cream tea! Find out more about our award winning system.

Where to find our
lovely stuff

We’re so proud of our award-winning products from ice creams to sorbets, creams to yogurts.  And not forgetting our famous Devon Clotted Cream!  We work with small, local cafes and restaurants to farm shops and nationwide supermarkets. Our list is always growing – see here a selection of where to find our lovely stuff.  (Plus, if you’re a business thinking of stocking Langage, give us a moo and email us!)

Where to find our
lovely stuff

We’re so proud of our award-winning products from ice creams to sorbets, creams to yoghurts.  And not forgetting our famous Devon Clotted Cream!  We work with small, local cafes and restaurants to farm shops and nationwide supermarkets. Our list is always growing – see here a selection of where to find our lovely stuff.  (Plus, if you’re a business thinking of stocking Langage, give us a moo and email us!)

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