Posts in Producers
Bethune Dairy

“We are Paul and Sally Bethune, fifth-generation dairy farmers from Lake Boga in North-western Victoria. Our family has been milking cows for 130 years- that’s almost as long as the cows have been coming home! We are the third generation to run this farm in Lake Boga and after 30 years of milking cows and now raising a family of five young boys, we’ve decided it is time for a new adventure and we are so excited to introduce Bethune Lane Dairy, our very own dairy produce company.”

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1816 Bakery

1816 is a Ballarat Bakery established in 2019, by Head Baker Josh Chapman, with owners of the Forge Pizzeria, Tim and Chris Matthews. Josh would travel to Trentham to get good quality sourdough bread. He realised there was a gap in Ballarat for a bricks-and-mortar sourdough bakery. In 2019, the first loaves came out of the oven.

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Morningswood Organic Strawberries

Aromatic and so strongly flavoured these super juicy and intensely flavoured strawberries are the best we have seen. Yes, they cost twice as much as supermarket strawberries, but they taste 16 times as good. They are grown on a little farm at Eganstown, 5km west of our store by Peter and Clare at Morningswood Farm. They are super passionate about regenerating the soil on their small acreage and have dug in hundreds of tonnes of organic matter to enrich the earth and encourage soil biodiversity. Which leads to these most amazing strawberries!

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Honest Egg Company

Paul Righetti’s left-hand man is a dog. A dog called Oscar. He is a Maremma guard dog that looks after the ISA brown hens that graze on pasture on his farm outside Guildford. The birds lay eggs sold under the Honest Egg Co. label. “We don’t like to talk about free-range, because that can mean 1500 birds sitting outside a shed without a blade of grass!” explains Paul. “Instead, we see ourselves as regenerative farmers.” The flocks of birds are free to roam on fresh pasture, scratching about for seeds, insects, and small stones to help digest the grain in which they are also fed.

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Inglenook Dairy

The milk from Inglenook tastes different. It is made from a single herd of Friesian cows grazing on grass out near Dunnstown, in the volcanic hills east of Ballarat. “We don’t process it like the big multinational companies,” says Rachael Peterkin. She and her husband Troy co-founded the small family-owned milk processing facility 10 years ago.

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