The Berry Dairy

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Currently closed for the season reopening 28th of September!

📍379 Mewburn Park Road, Maffra

🍓Strawberry Picking ☕️ Café 🐮 Petting Zoo 🛝 Playground 🍦 Ice Cream & Desserts 🥩 Farm Produce 🍷 Licensed

An apology, I said I would have all our farm experiences and information and confirmed opening date this week but it has...
30/08/2026

An apology, I said I would have all our farm experiences and information and confirmed opening date this week but it has been hectic on the dairy farm 🐮

But I have everything almost everything ready and will do up all the details this coming week along with our exact opening date (but it will be in the upcoming school holidays!)- and sharing the pretty mammoth task of getting everything back in shape before opening.

But today we picked up Benny! He joins M’oops in our petting zoo - a huge thank you to Yintarini Farm for letting us adopt this little dude. Yesterday I also picked up some gorgeous friendly Frizzle hens and a rooster - 🤞 for baby chicks! And one of our original Berry Dairy oprphan lambs had her first baby yesterday too ❤️

Also - not the best photo of me and Benny - I’m going to blame the sun in my eyes, but more likely the fact of too many wines on Friday night 😅

28/08/2026

Quick outfit change to go to the Gippsland Business Awards tonight! We are finalists in the Accomodation and Tourism section 🤞 - but we are up against some other incredible businesses! Best of luck to everyone tonight.
Back to feeding calves in the morning 😅 - thank god for stick on nails Candy Claws™ Press On Nails

🍓 JOIN THE BERRY DAIRY TEAM THIS SEASON! 🐄We’re getting ready for another busy season at The Berry Dairy and are looking...
23/08/2026

🍓 JOIN THE BERRY DAIRY TEAM THIS SEASON! 🐄

We’re getting ready for another busy season at The Berry Dairy and are looking for a few extra people to join our team across weekends and school holidays.

These are mainly shorter shifts around our busiest part of the day, making them a great fit if you’re looking for a few regular hours without giving up your whole weekend.

🍦 JUNIOR CAFÉ TEAM — 2 POSITIONS

A great first job for someone friendly, reliable and keen to learn.

You’ll help with:
• Making and serving ice creams
• Running food and drinks
• Clearing tables
• Dishwashing
• Keeping customer areas clean and tidy
• General café support

No experience is required, although previous experience is always a bonus.

Typical shifts: around 11am–2/3pm
Minimum 3-hour shift, with some shifts extending up to approximately 5 hours when required.

You’ll need to be available at least one weekend day and during school holidays.

☕ WEEKEND BARISTA

We’re also looking for an experienced barista to join our café team across weekends and school holidays.

We’re after someone confident working independently on coffee, friendly with customers and comfortable working through our busy lunchtime period.

Typical shifts: around 10am–2pm on weekends, with some flexibility depending on trade.

This could be a great fit for someone wanting regular weekend hours without committing to full-day shifts.

🚜 DAIRY FARM TRACTOR TOUR OPERATORS

We’re putting together a small team of people to run our new Dairy Farm Tractor Tours.

This role would particularly suit a retired or semi-retired dairy farmer, former dairy farmer, or someone with strong practical dairy farming experience who enjoys talking to people and sharing their knowledge.

You’ll take visitors on a guided tractor tour of our working dairy farm — showing them the cows, paddocks, machinery, calf-rearing areas and rotary dairy while explaining what actually happens behind the scenes on a dairy farm.

We’re looking for several operators, which means we can create a flexible roster around your availability.

Tours will operate Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and you certainly don’t need to commit to every weekend. If getting off farm, meeting people and sharing your farming knowledge for a few hours — even one weekend a month — sounds appealing, we’d love to hear from you.

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For all three roles, reliability is really important. We’re looking for people who are friendly, practical and happy to work as part of a small team during our busy periods.

📍 The Berry Dairy, Maffra

Interested? Send us a message with which role you’re interested in, a little about yourself, any relevant experience and your general availability.

Know someone who would be perfect? Feel free to tag them or share this post. 🍓

Introducing… M’oops! 🐑❤️Congratulations Charlie Bear — send me a PM and I’ll send through your voucher.And thank you so ...
21/08/2026

Introducing… M’oops! 🐑❤️

Congratulations Charlie Bear — send me a PM and I’ll send through your voucher.

And thank you so much to everyone who commented with name suggestions. There were some very good ones 😂 We’ll have more petting zoo additions joining us soon, so I’m sure we’ll be calling on you for help again.

If you’d like to come and meet M’oops, The Berry Dairy reopens on 24 September.

You can also meet and feed some of our animals through our VIP Animal Experiences, held before we open to the public in small groups.

More information here:
https://theberrydairy.com.au/our-experiences/

16/08/2026

What happens to my calves who are outside when it’s raining and cold? 🐄🌧️

We like to get our calves outside fairly early, usually from around 2–3 weeks old, because our weather is generally pretty good for it and they get plenty of space to move around, start grazing and live together in a larger group.

But on those yuck weather days, we give them a bit of extra support.

These girls are already on once-a-day milk feeding, so rather than adding another milk feed in the evening and potentially upsetting their stomachs, I’ll give them a warm electrolyte feed before bed instead.

We’ve also put woodchip down in their resting area, with shade cloth and steel mesh helping give them some extra protection from the wind and rain.

🐄 You’ll be able to see more of how we raise our calves and run the dairy through our new Berry Dairy Farm Tours this season.

🍓 The Berry Dairy reopens 24 September in Maffra, Gippsland.

15/08/2026

How do you feed 50 dairy calves at the same time? 🐄🥛

Once our calves are around 2–3 weeks old, they move from the calf sheds into outside paddocks on our dairy farm here in Maffra, Gippsland.

That’s when we use our mobile milk feeder, which allows up to 50 calves to drink at once from individual teats around the outside.

Each calf drinks around 6 litres of milk per day, while also having access to fresh water, calf grain and pasture.

Moving outside is the next stage in our calf-rearing program. The calves begin grazing grass, living in a larger group and becoming more independent while they continue receiving milk. As they grow, their diet gradually shifts towards pasture and grain until they’re eventually weaned.

🐄 This season you’ll be able to see more of this side of our working dairy farm through our new Berry Dairy Farm Tours, including a visit to the dairy during milking and a behind-the-scenes look at how the farm operates.

🍓 The Berry Dairy reopens 24 September in Maffra, Gippsland.

On the lookout for orphan lambs (or goats) to join our petting zoo 🐑In our petting zoo we have orphan lambs and goats we...
11/08/2026

On the lookout for orphan lambs (or goats) to join our petting zoo 🐑

In our petting zoo we have orphan lambs and goats we bottle rear - so send me a message if you end up with a mismothered or orphan lamb and would prefer not to bottle feed it. Also happy to bottle feed it and return it later once it is weaned.

Can’t believe it is less than 6 weeks till we reopen 😅

21/07/2026

Her first few hours are some of the most important. She gets an ear tag, her navel is sprayed with iodine, then she’s tube-fed gold colostrum that’s been Brix tested above 22. Calves are born with no immunity, so this first feed is vital to give them the best possible start.

She then gets a yellow collar so everyone knows she’s had her colostrum. Once she’s confidently drinking from the feeder on her own, the collar comes off.

Then it’s time to feed the rest of her little mates.

Very soon, you’ll be able to see this side of the farm for yourself with our new tractor farm tours. 🚜 More details soon.

📍 The Berry Dairy, Maffra, Victoria

Address

379 Mewburn Park Road
Maffra, VIC
3860

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 3pm
Thursday 10am - 3pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

+61499087799

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