The Berry Dairy
Highlights
- Savour fresh strawberries straight from 20,000 spray-free plants while enjoying a paddock-to-plate experience in Gippsland.
- Explore the petting zoo featuring friendly animals like miniature goats and a charming alpaca, perfect for family fun.
- Relax in lush green paddocks with local wine or a strawberry cocktail while kids enjoy the playground.
- Experience sustainable practices with a zero-waste approach, ensuring every berry is used creatively in delicious treats.
The Berry Dairy is a family-owned pick-your-own strawberry farm and café located on a working dairy property just outside Maffra in beautiful Gippsland. Open seasonally from October to May, it’s a hands-on, paddock-to-plate experience designed for families, foodies, and anyone looking to reconnect with where their food comes from.
Set across lush green paddocks, the farm is home to 20,000 spray-free strawberry plants, a petting zoo filled with friendly animals, and a rustic café serving up house-made strawberry treats, local produce menu, and real fruit strawberry ice cream made with their own strawberries. The playground and wide-open spaces make it ideal for kids to explore while grown-ups relax with a local wine or strawberry cocktail in hand. There is also a farmyard petting zoo, with miniature goats, chickens, ducks, lambs, calves and a friendly alpaca. It is also dog friendly.
The Berry Dairy has a strong focus on sustainability, with solar power, recycled water, and a zero-waste approach to strawberries, every berry gets used, either in a punnet or into jam, liqueur, beer or ice cream.
Whether you are planning a day trip with the kids or seeking a fresh Gippsland food experience, The Berry Dairy is a sweet and simple way to enjoy the best of the region, grown and served with care.
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Accreditations
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Sustainable Tourism Accreditation by ATIC
Features
Tags
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Website meets <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/" target="_blank">WCAG 2.0</a> accessibility standards
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Grab rails in the bathroom
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
- Step free access to the conference or function room
- Accessible seating areas in theatrette
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.
- Wheelchair accessible picnic tables (picnic tables require 720mm knee clearance and 800mm maximum height).
- At least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high).
Allergies and intolerances
Caters for people with allergies and intolerances.
- Modify their cooking and cleaning practices to cater for people with food allergies or chemical intolerances (could include menus with meals free from: nuts, dairy, seafood, eggs, gluten etc).
- Staff are trained to respond to allergic reactions.
- Complies with The Food Authority requirements for allergy management in food preparation.
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