Feeling Jolley to join Fleurieu Milk The newest farming family to join the Fleurieu Milk family brings with them a strong legacy in the local dairy industry and one of the best ‘Fleurieu Milk hacks’ we’ve heard! Grant and Deb Jolley, with sons Ben and Randall, are excited to share they are now Fleurieu Milk...

Munbilla Dairy joins Fleurieu Milk family The latest supplier to be welcomed into the fold at Fleurieu Milk Company as a supplier is Munbilla Dairy at Hindmarsh Tiers. Hindmarsh Tiers is located centrally on the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula, nestled in beside Myponga where Fleurieu Milk’s operations are based, and just south-west of Mount Compass. Owner...

Cast your mind back 15 years to 2006. Mike Rann is South Australia’s Premier; Rob Kerin and then Iain Evans lead the Opposition. Miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell are miraculously rescued from a collapsed mine in Beaconsfield, Tasmania. For nine weeks on top of the music charts, Sandi Thom wishes she was a punk rocker with...

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we catch up with four Myponga dairy farmers who are suppliers of Fleurieu Milk who you know and love: Samantha Martin of Bengowrie, Bec Walmsley of Windy Vale, Inge Pacitti-Vreeken of Manna Springs and Mandy Pacitti of Misty Brae. Myponga, located the Fleurieu Peninsula’s foothills, is home to the five...

Sometimes the stars align and the universe tells you you’re right where you’re supposed to be. That’s the way it is for dairy farmers Mike and Pam Mignanelli. Their lives have been punctuated by a series of coincidences that make it clear that fate has pushed them in the right direction. Mike and Pam are...

Since Nick Mignanelli could walk, he’s been helping out on the family dairy farm at Hindmarsh Tiers. “I was always in the dairy from a very young age,” Nick explains. As tends to be the way with dairying families, it was very much all hands on deck for the Mignanelli’s, with Nick remembering being lovingly scolded...

For Fleurieu Milk’s newest supplier Nick Brokenshire, the allure of life on the farm has always been intrinsically linked with family. “Obviously no day is typical, but usually we get up and milk the cows nice and early, 1 o’clock in the morning, and we like to be finished by about 6am,” he explains. “It’s...

Like many farmers, for Ian Willcocks dairy farming is a family affair. Owner of Yankalilla’s Manna Farm alongside wife Nicki, Ian grew up on the 115-hectare property that he continues to farm today. “Dad bought the place in 1960 and I was born a year after that, so it’s always been a part of my...

The Australian dairy industry has experienced immense instability since the early 2000s, with overall production diminishing approximately 25% in the last ten years nationwide. Fleurieu Milk Company was borne out of this hardship back in 2004, after observing a rapidly declining farm gate price and the number of operating farms in Myponga reduced by 75%....

When it comes to Australia’s best dairy farming regions, Fleurieu Milk co-director Geoff Hutchinson admits he’s biased. “There are pockets throughout the country, but I think the Fleurieu is generally one of the best,” he says. Myponga, located the Fleurieu Peninsula’s foothills, is home to the five local farmers that supply Fleurieu Milk with raw product. Uniquely...