A Small Town Called Undera
Situated in the heart of Australia’s Goulburn Valley Dairy region, Undera is home to our small business.
We are a family owned and operated certified organic dairy farm producing the highest quality milk products; also doubling as an on farm gelateria!
We pride ourselves on the quality of our dairy produce and share our passion by creating a heathy ecosystem of the land. From the grass we grow to the cows we raise, we create the finest produce Australia has to offer.
We are delighted to invite you all to our farm to try our broad selection of delicious traditional Italian gelato made with love.
Our Family Story
“From an Italian migrant heritage, my parents came to Australia in the late 1950’s”
Seeking new beginnings and a better lifestyle from their homeland, and after exploring different
avenues trying different jobs in Australia, they finally decided to settle on a farm
in Undera, Victoria 1968. After a few years of growing tomatoes and beef cattle they decided to
establish a dairy farm in 1974, where they dealt with all the ups and downs the dairy industry is
notorious for. In 1997 they decided to retire from farming. Irene and I gradually took over the farm
where we decided to raise our family of three children. Because of the high level of
unpredictability that the dairy industry revolves around from year to year and the harsh financial
outcomes that it can create. We decided that the best way forward to create some level of stability
on our dairy farm was to value add to our milk. In 2013 we looked at a few different avenues to
accomplish this and decided that making Gelato was something that interested both of us and
would allow us to produce a quality finished product using our fresh milk, so we started to
establish a commercial manufacturing kitchen in pursuit of this. As our journey progressed with
establishing our manufacturing kitchen, another opportunity came about in 2016 to value add to
our milk once again by converting our dairy farm to a certified organic dairy farm. In doing so we
went on numerous farm walks that gave us new insight into organic farming which helped us to
work out how this was going to happen for our dairy farm.
The outcome of the big decision to value add to our conventional milk has allowed for us establish
a more environmentally friendly organic dairy farm management system. For the good of our cattle
and the environment, we have a more natural approach to producing our milk from the girls (cows)
that does not use any chemicals or synthetic fertilisers. At the end of the day, beneficial results are
reflected in the flavour and nutritional value of our organic milk and gelato that we produce on
farm.
