About Us

Our farm is Glenwillow and it’s been owned by our family since 1944. Cows have always been milked here. We supply Fonterra seasonally, with a small herd for our shop which we milk all year round. Our farm is on the Timaru Town boundary, and we milk at peak about 220 cows. We were looking at ways to be more productive without getting more cows and locals have always wanted fresh milk and this got us thinking about the value add we could create by selling milk here on the farm and this was basically how Real Milk Timaru came about.

In 2013 we went ahead and purchased a milk dispenser and bottle dispenser and set up a shop alongside our dairy shed. There is a small herd of cows which supply the shop milk and they are milked once a day, this milk is what people wanted who are aware of the unique choice of unpasteurised and non-homogenised milk which has had no processing which means it’s as nature intended us to drink it. The fact that the milk comes in a glass reuseable bottle also ticks boxes. We also deliver milk 4 days a week, as far north as Geraldine, South to Waimate and West to Tekapo, for customers who enjoy the convenience of this service. Customers can watch the cows being milked through the viewing window in the shop and there are often calves to go and see in the nearby pens which is popular with young children.

Cheers
Stu & Andrea Weir