King Island Dairy

As one of Australia’s oldest dairy producers, we take pride in small-batch, handmade cheeses made using traditional techniques, honed over time and passed down with care. Our cheeses draw on the island’s unique climate, rich soil and salty pastures — the result, some say, of shipwrecked straw mattresses that scattered foreign grass seeds along the coastline, now flourishing in King Island’s pristine, mineral-rich environment and unspoiled pure air. King Island is a place like no other – located in the Bass Strait between Tasmania and mainland Australia — it is remote, windswept by the Roaring Forties, and utterly unique. Its rich soils, abundant rainfall, salty pastures, and mild temperatures year-round, create ideal conditions for dairy farming. This rare combination of elements gives our milk — and our cheese — an unmistakable character you won’t find anywhere else. Essential to producing the highest quality cheeses is the provenance of ingredients – our milk is pure, rich and 100% local. In fact, 95% of our milk comes from our own farms, just minutes down the road from our factory on the island. Our cows graze freely on lush, salt-kissed pastures year-round, producing grass-fed milk that’s collected fresh every single day.