St Sunday's is a cheese that has been years in the making and is the result of a collaboration between cheesemakers Martin Gott and Nicola Robinson, and the Robinson family at Strickley Farm. The Robinson family are fifth generation farmers and have been at Strickley Farm since 1875, with James and his son Robert currently stewarding this long, narrow and stony farm. The landscape of fells and mountains, a cold hilly corner of the Lake District, was never suited to "improvement" and so here it has always been necessary to work with, and embrace, the pasture diversity, adapting to the land, rather than adapting the land to them. Here, old fashioned farming techniques, now desirable for new generations of regenerative farmers, are simply a way of life, and have been for generations. Diverse herbal grasses, traditional hedgerows, streams and organically-farmed Dairy Shorthorn milking cows combine to produce a milk of great quality and complexity. This is the milk being made into St Sunday's by Nicola and her team, just down the road at Holker Farm Dairy, alongside the cheeses made at their own farm

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