The ice cream joins a growing list of products available from the farm’s vending machines, including fresh milk, milkshakes, homemade cakes, and the farm’s own reared beef and lamb.

The story of toile de Jouy fabric starts in 18th-century France, in the town of Jouy-en-Josas.At the height of Europe's obsession with Indian cotton (which saw the fabric banned for a time by both the ...