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From Farm to Fromage: Cheesy Adventures in the Sunshine Coast

Welcome to the Sunshine Coast, where the grass is greener, the cows are happier, and the cheese? Well, it's downright legendary. Let's take a jaunt through the land of the cheese idols, where every slice tells a story, and every cheeseboard is a map of this lush region.

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Woombye Cheese Company

Woombye Cheese Company
Woombye Cheese Company

Woombye is situated in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast region, approximately a 1 hour drive north of Brisbane. Surrounded by beautiful agricultural and dairy country, it is the perfect place to make cheese.

Originally founded by Graeme and Karen Paynter in 2013, their range has grown to include Camembert, Triple Cream Brie, Blackall Gold Washed Rind, Woombye Ash Brie, Vintage Cheddar and of course, their indulgent Truffle Triple Cream Brie.

Today, Woombye Cheese Company is owned by Beth O’Leary who has a passion for artisan cheese. She travelled Australia with her family in 2019 doing the ‘Big Lap’ which became the ‘Big Lap of Cheese’ when they managed to visit over 30 cheesemakers across the country!

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Maleny Cheese

Maleny Cheese
Maleny Cheese

Maleny Cheese brings you handcrafted cheese and yoghurt from the pure local milk of the Sunshine Coast hinterland and a genuine farm to plate experience. Their cafe and cheesery is owned and run by the Bucher family in Maleny, Queensland.

They use time honoured traditions and the pure local milk of the rolling green hills, so you get a true taste of their special region. Maleny Cheese love their community, their farmers, and simply good dairy. These things are at the centre of everything they do. From their Maleny cafe and store, to their boutique range of products, they offer you an authentic paddock to plate experience and honest food of the highest quality.

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Maleny Food Co.

Maleny Food Co.
Maleny Food Co.

The Maleny Food Co. story began in 2001 when it was first founded as Colin James Fine Foods, opening on Maple St, Maleny.

Maleny Food Co. is an artisan food producer located in the beautiful surrounds of Maleny, in the heart of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Queensland.

Their signature gelato and sorbet has achieved critical acclaim and consistently wins Australian industry awards. Combining rich Guernsey milk and cream, local fruits and produce with the finest Italian ingredients.

Maleny Food Co. are known for their fromagerie stocked with hundreds of gourmet cheeses and the delicious range of food that is served in their deli style store.

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QCamel

QCamel
QCamel

QCamel, Australia’s premium supplier of Certified Organic camel milk products is owned and run by the Brisbane Family and their dedicated team of wonderful staff on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

QCamel was the first dairy to produce premium pasteurised camel milk in Australia and are proud to bring you nature’s healthiest milk. Lovingly made using ethical, organic and sustainable farming practices, their camels are pasture fed in a no-cull environment where they share the milk with calves.

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Kenilworth Dairies

Kenilworth Dairies
Kenilworth Dairies

Kenilworth Dairies has a rich history in the dairy industry. Surrounded by the natural beauty of the Mary Valley and Sunshine Coast hinterland it is no wonder their products are fresh and full of passion.

Visit their factory and you will notice testament to their historic master cheesemakers all over the factory. Despite almost 65+ years of cheese making, Kenilworth's passion remains the same; quality local products that support the dairy farming families of the region. The Kenilworth cheese factory is truly a piece of Queensland dairy history.

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Maleny Dairies

Maleny Dairies
Maleny Dairies

From milk that tastes ‘just like it used to when we were kids,’ to a range of yoghurts, custard and cream, it all comes from local dairy farmers, processed through the factory and direct to the consumer.

Products are naturally produced, locally sourced, bottled cold and delivered fresh. Care for the land, cows and farmers is at the heart of the business and Maleny Dairies is proud to support, purchase and process milk from other local dairy farmers, as well as their own.