Camel Milk NSW

Thursday 30 Apr 2026 by

Hunter Valley farmer, Michelle Phillips and her husband Daniel have tapped into a huge resource of almost half a million 'feral' camels in the Aussie outback to produce fresh milk for a small but loyal market.  Their camel journey began in 2014, with a mission statement to produce their own camel milk.   "We started with five mothers and six babies from Western Australia. We picked them up at Shepparton before they got to the abattoir," Michelle says.  "We've been rescuing more along the way to get the herd up to 50, which is about our capacity for this farm." "... Read more >

Thursday 30 Apr 2026 by

When you think of camels, you probably envision them in a dry, desert environment, not in the lush green paddocks of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. On the outskirts of Muswellbrook, more than 50 camels roam Michelle Phillips's 40-hectare property. Ms Phillips runs the only certified camel dairy in the state, in a journey that started a decade ago.She was eager to try camel's milk after researching its health benefits."Back then, there was only one commercial [camel] dairy in Australia and that was in Western Australia. "To get fresh milk was a plane... Read more >