Home-grown forage
Maize and triticale grow on our own fields and become silage without ever leaving the farm.
Energy & sustainability · Solar power: Cilento sunshine, inside the barn
Milking, cooling the milk and sprouting barley are the most energy-hungry jobs on a farm like ours. We run them largely on sunshine.
- 86.58 kWInstalled solar capacity
- + storageBatteries, since 2025
- 2014First panels installed
Where our energy goes
86.58 kW, with storage
The plant has grown step by step: the first panels in 2014, further additions over the years and, in 2025, more panels plus battery storage.
Our solar plant generates power while the sun is up; the batteries store it and release it when it's needed, evenings included. Together they largely run the three processes milk quality depends on:
- Milking — the DeLaval systems, at every milking.
- Milk cooling — the chill that starts right after milking.
- Sprouting — the light, water and climate control of our two HydroGreen systems.
A shorter chain
Every step we keep at home is one less journey
The more we do on the farm, the less has to travel.
Feed made on site
Barley sprouts every day a few metres from the feed trough, powered by our own plant.
Milk we make into cheese
From 2027 the milk will go straight to our own dairy, with no one in between.
Next project
Water
[PLACEHOLDER: well / water-management project — description and timing]
We only publish what we have actually done: this section will be updated once the project is under way.
Milk from our own buffalo, made into cheese in our own dairy.