diff --git a/.github/workflows/package.yml b/.github/workflows/package.yml
index 5868ace..01bdfae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/package.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "versioningit $(versioningit ../)"
           # conda channels could have been defined in the conda-incubator, but you can copy/paste the lines
           # below to build the conda package in your locally
-          CHANNELS="--channel mantid/label/main --channel conda-forge"
+          CHANNELS="--channel mantid/label/main --channel conda-forge --channel neutrons"
           VERSION=$(versioningit ../) conda mambabuild $CHANNELS --output-folder . .
           conda verify noarch/usansred*.tar.bz2
       - name: upload conda package to anaconda
diff --git a/.github/workflows/testing.yml b/.github/workflows/testing.yml
index d5c2c6e..80ba0c3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/testing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/testing.yml
@@ -51,6 +51,6 @@ jobs:
           echo "versioningit $(versioningit ../)"
           # conda channels could have been defined in the conda-incubator, but you can copy/paste the lines
           # below to build the conda package in your local machine
-          CHANNELS="--channel mantid/label/main --channel conda-forge"
+          CHANNELS="--channel mantid/label/main --channel conda-forge --channel neutrons"
           VERSION=$(versioningit ../) conda mambabuild $CHANNELS --output-folder . .
           conda verify noarch/usansred*.tar.bz2
diff --git a/conda.recipe/meta.yaml b/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
index a429c9d..50c9943 100644
--- a/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ requirements:
     - numpy
     - scipy
     - pandas
+    - finddata=0.10
     - xlsxwriter
     - matplotlib
 
diff --git a/docs/source/releases.rst b/docs/source/releases.rst
index 566963b..a1a11dc 100644
--- a/docs/source/releases.rst
+++ b/docs/source/releases.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Release Notes
 
 **Of interest to the Developer:**
 
-- PR #12: switch from mantid to mantidworkbench conda package
+- PR #14 transition from pip to conda when installing dependency finddata
+- PR #12 switch from mantid to mantidworkbench conda package
 
 1.0.0
 -----
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index b544b49..9f08ae1 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ dependencies:
   - mantidworkbench=6.9.1
   - pandas
   - xlsxwriter
+  - neutrons::finddata=0.10
   - pip
-  - pip:
-    - git+https://github.com/peterfpeterson/finddata@v0.8.4
   # Development dependencies
   - libmamba
   - libarchive