Breakfast with the Jersey Girls Market Day - 150 years of farming on Central Kerry

This special edition Market Day, as part of the celebrations for our 150th year of farming on Central Kerry, offers a range of options to enjoy food, farming and family on our historic family property.

MARKET DAY ENTRY ONLY - 11AM TO 2PM

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MARKET DAY - 11AM TO 2PM (Does not include milking activities or breakfast)

Join us on the farm to celebrate 150 years of farming on Central Kerry. We welcome you through the farm gates to explore how we farm, get to know our animals, meet the farmers, enjoy produce fresh from the farm, and fill your esky with our farm fresh goodies before you head home. 

If you'd like to get deep in the weeds of our farming practices, there's the option to join a backstage farm tour with the farmers. Numbers are limited for these personal tours of the farm including Harry's Paddock heirlooms and organics, rotational grazing and mixed pastures with the pigs and vealers, and Tommy's pasture loving hens.

Ticket options start from $11/person for Market Day entry. Separate ticket purchase required for Deep in the Weeds Farm tour option.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

- BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL - NO WALK IN VISITORS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

- Enclosed shoes are essential. Entry is not permitted without them. Please wear clean clothes and footwear. Ensuring that your shoes are not soiled with any debris/organic matter. Biosecurity is extremely important for our farm. Thank you for helping us to keep our animals safe.

- Please do not bring the family pet. As a working farm, we don't allow visitors to bring pets to the farm.

- Bookings essential. Numbers at the dairy will be kept extremely low.

- Every visitor is required to complete a waiver on entry. 

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SOLD OUT -- BREAKFAST WITH THE JERSEY GIRLS: 7.30AM TO 10AM

Welcome to Breakfast with the Jersey Girls with the farmers, on our 6th generation farm. Milk our Jersey Girls with us, see the cream separating process, and how butter is made on the farm, before joining us for a hearty farmhouse breakfast featuring our own farm produce. (Please note breakfast menu is set and due to the nature of the catering service and our available farm produce, we cannot provide for specific dietary requirements)

After breakfast, feel free to join us for the morning feeding rounds as the farm gates open for Market Day visitors from 11AM TO 2PM. 

As the morning sun begins to peep over the mountain range, our Jersey Girls make their way slowly and methodically back to the yards to await morning milking. Anticipating their arrival, the calves linger close, eager to be nourished with creamy Jersey milk delivered just as it should be, fresh and warm from mum’s udder.

In the dairy, the century-old Alfa Laval separator is carefully assembled in readiness for the morning cream separating, just as it was 5 generations ago in this very building. The Jersey Girls are waiting by the gate –  the daily routine, the calm of Dave’s voice, the clink of the dairy gate, instinctively signally the start of their workday. One by one they make their way into the dairy, each ushered in individually at just the right pace so as not to overload the rhythm of the cream separator.

Rich Jersey cream is gently churned until golden beads of butter begin to break away from the buttermilk. The glass butter churn harks back to Kay’s childhood when butter was made with her family around the kitchen table.  With the morning milking coming to an end, the buckets of frothy, nutrient rich skim milk are welcomed with squeals of delight by the family’s free-range, heritage breed pigs, a tradition starting over 110 years ago on the farm.

SELF CONTAINED CAMPING: ONLY AVAILABLE WITH Breakfast with the Jersey Girls ticket purchase - We're happy to offer self-contained camping on Saturday night, 27th of July, for those who would like to wake on the farm for the morning milking. Camping in the paddock will be available from 4pm on Saturday 27 July. Please note we are unable to offer camp fires in the paddock due to the location of the camping paddock. A communal fire pit will be available at The Barn (9.30pm curfew) for those who wish to enjoy the full experience on the farm. Camping numbers are limited due to council restrictions placed on our business. Portable toilets are located within a 5 minute walk from the camping paddock. No potable water or electricity is available. Self-contained campers only.

Bookings are essential for experiences.