BARRY & MERRIDIE

Barry & Merridie Clarke are co-directors of Fleurieu Milk and owners of Roslyn Vale dairy farm. Rosyln Vale is a family owned farm, first purchased by Merridie’s grandparents back in 1926. Baz has always been a full-time dairy farmer, who first started milking cows back in 1976 with his brother who now resides in Lucindale as a beef and sheep farmer. Baz and Merridie purchased Rosyln Vale in 1993 from Merridie’s parents.

ROB & BEC

Rob & Bec are sharefarmers, who have taken over the running of Windy Vale Holsteins. Rob and Bec were share-farming in Mount Gambier and knew Geoff through the stud dairy world. When their farm went on the market, the Dairy industry was in a tough place. After a chat with Geoff mentioning a job at Windy Vale before they knew it, they had moved and were living in Myponga.

STEVE & INGE

Owners of Manna Springs, Steve is a 2nd generation dairy farmer whose family has lived in the Myponga area for more than 70 years. The farm was first purchased by Steve’s parents Michael and Anna in 1973. Inge and Steve meet in 1998 during Inge’s backpacking trip to South Australia. Inge left Australia that year and headed back for the Netherlands only to return not long afterwards having fallen in love with Steve.

GINO & MANDY

Located just kilometres down the road from Fleurieu Milk, Misty Brae owners Gino and Mandy Pacitti start their day at 4.30am but always “aim to finish by 6pm, that way we get a bit of quality time to spend with family”.
After all, family is at the heart of Misty Brae’s history and present-day operations, with Gino’s parents first farming a small property after emigrating from Italy in the 1950s.

ROBERT, MANDY & NICK

For Fleurieu Milk’s second Jersey Milk supplier Robert, Mandy and Nick Brokenshire, owners of Roslyn Amdena Jerseys, the allure of life on the farm has always been intrinsically linked with family. Counting the dairy as his closest neighbour growing up, Nick recalls “getting stuck in the mud, pushing up cows when mum and dad were milking… and just generally being amongst it on a day to day basis”. It’s a lifestyle he says doesn’t stray far from that of his own three children today.

EDDY, DOMENICA & NICK

Since Nick Mignanelli could walk, he’s been helping out on the family dairy farm at Hindmarsh Tiers. As tends to be the way with dairying families, it was very much all hands on deck for the Mignanellis, with Nick remembering being lovingly scolded by mum, Domenica.
“She said, ‘If you are going to stand there and do nothing you might as well put the bloody cups on!’”

TIM & SHANE

Tim & Shane run the family dairy farm Gum Dark on Pages Flat Road, at Myponga, milking around 140 Friesians all year round in their herringbone-style dairy. Gum Dark is a sister farm to Verde Valley at Hindmarsh Tiers, managed by cousin Nick. Both farms are owned by their grandparents – Carmine and Lydia Mignanelli. Before Carmine and Lydia went out on their own, Carmine was in a partnership with his two brothers.

JEFF & MANDY

Owner Jeffrey Green of Munbilla Dairy at Hindmarsh Tiers explains – he could not be more happy with the partnership with Fleurieu Milk Company, which offers confidence and the promise of sustainability to his farm’s business operations. Jeff is supported in the business by his partner Mandy, who has a job off-farm while the Munbilla team also includes Ash, Russell and Hayley, who are all important to the operation’s success.

GRANT & DEB

The newest farming family to join the Fleurieu Milk family brings with them a strong legacy in the local dairy industry. Grant and Deb Jolley, with sons Ben and Randall, are excited to share they are now Fleurieu Milk suppliers. Their farm, on the outskirts of Victor Harbor in beautiful Hindmarsh Valley – just a few kilometres north of Urimbirra Wildlife Park – has been in Grant’s family since 1853 and there has been continuous links to farming ever since then.