A lot happened in this month, but most notably was our first ever full product run! Our first complete trial of the entire process.
Early in the month, and after some delays, all of our processing equipment, including a temporary bottle filler, was fitted into Kingsmeade’s cheese factory, meaning that we were finally good to go on the processing front.
At about the same time our label designs were also completed which meant that we could now label our bottles with our brand, a bit about us, and all of the important nutritional information. It was certainly exciting to watch the labels go onto the bottles for the first time, using our new labeller as well.
Now that we were finally ready to go, we did our first complete product run of all 3 flavours – what a day!! It was incredible to finally have our finished product, and now be able to share it with everyone. Such an uplifting time, but still a long way to go yet, as this was just a practice. But we were now ready to confidently get into full production when the time came.
An additional little win for this month was a nice little feature in the Country Wide magazine – news of what we were getting up to was spreading fast.