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Camphill Farm

Camphill has been farming organically for more than 30 years.

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Camphill Farm

Good milk comes from happy cows

  • Visitors of all ages leaning over a farm fence to stroke and hand-feed two Jersey cows on the Camphill pasture.
  • A dark newborn calf lying in long grass while the rest of the herd grazes around it.
  • Jersey cows grazing in an open Camphill pasture full of white spring flowers, with farm buildings among the trees behind them.

Our herd of 90 cows is milked twice daily and spends most of its time grazing naturally on pasture. Their milk is processed on site into our much-loved dairy products, including our famous yoghurt and award-winning cheeses.

The farm, at Klein Dassenberg
220 ha
Of that, under pasture
About 35 ha
Jersey cows in the milking herd
90
Milked, morning and afternoon
Twice a day
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Dairy

Camphill Dairy

  • Award-winning quality

    We were named a South African Champion in 2025 for our Full Fat Cream Cheese Roll with Garlic and Herb, one example of the care and quality behind everything we produce.

  • Dairy products

    Our dairy has built a loyal following across Cape Town. From creamy yoghurt and fresh milk to butter, Gouda, Cheddar, feta, labneh and quark, everything is made with care and character.

  • Visit and taste

    You can find our products at selected retailers, or better yet, visit us at our monthly market, take a tractor ride and experience it all first-hand.

A Camphill co-worker holding up the 2025 South African Dairy Championships certificate naming Camphill Village a South African Champion for its Full Fat Cream Cheese Roll with Garlic & Herb.
Dairy Products
Dairy products

Our range of organically produced dairy products from our 90 Jersey cows

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  • A one litre glass jar of Camphill full cream yoghurt with a pale blue lid, the label hand-lettered and illustrated with a Jersey cow.

    Full Cream Yoghurt

    1 litre

  • A 250 ml glass jar of Camphill low fat yoghurt, marked hand made and preservative free.

    Low Fat Yoghurt

    250 ml

  • A 250 ml glass jar of thick Camphill fresh cream, the label tagged grass-fed Jersey cows.

    Fresh Cream

    250 ml

  • A 750 ml glass bottle of Camphill pasteurised full cream milk from grass-fed Jersey cows.

    Full Cream Milk

    750 ml

  • A 260 g block of Camphill salted butter wrapped in paper with a yellow label and a drawing of a Jersey cow.

    Salted Butter

    260 g

FAQs

How we keep our herd

  • What are the conditions like that the cows are kept in? Where do they feed?

    The cows graze on our pastures. We have a farm of 220ha, and of that, about 35ha of pastures. They spend all of the time outdoors, in pastures, except when they are milked. They are collected from the fields and milked twice a day, mornings and afternoons.

  • What is their diet comprised of? Are they entirely pasture raised or is their diet supplemented by grains etc.?

    In winter it is a combination of natural winter grass, serredella, kweek, and kikuyu. We also have fields of oats for winter grazing. While they are being milked, their food is supplemented with a feed which consists of non-GMO maize, molasses and Lucerne, and straw. We grow barley and lucerne which we bale for summer fodder supplement feeding.

  • How are the cows milked?

    The cows are milked with machine clusters, eight at a time.

  • What happens to those cows that are no longer producing milk?

    Cows that are no longer milk producing we sell on auction.

  • How do you ensure that the dairy-producing cows keep producing milk? How are the dairy cows impregnated?

    We do not do artificial insemination. We have two bulls that are part of the herd of cows in milk, and each cow has a calf every year to ensure it stays in milk.

  • What happens to the male calves? What happens to the female calves?

    The calves stay with their mothers for 2 months. Thereafter we sell the male calves to one of our staff who raises them as bulls. The female calves we raise to be our future herd.

  • What happens to the animal waste produced? How are the pastures and plants fertilised?

    The animal waste is used to make compost for our fields and vegetable gardens. The liquid waste is diluted and sprayed on our fields.

These answers come from our full Camphill Dairy FAQ, which has the pictures to go with them and tells you who to ask if your question is not here.

Organic garden

Organic Garden

  • Long beds of young leeks growing in dark soil, with a hand-written row marker and the farm's tunnel greenhouse in the background.
  • Two Camphill gardeners bent over a row of seedlings with buckets beside them, planting out the next crop on a bright morning.

Our gardens are at the heart of village life, growing herbs for our workshops and fresh vegetables for our homes, our local community and selected retailers.

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Alien clearing

Our Alien Clearing team works beyond the village, removing invasive species like wattle and Port Jackson in partnership with neighbouring farms and CapeNature. It is meaningful work that restores the environment and creates purpose.

The clearing team feeding cut branches into an orange wood chipper, with a growing mound of green chips beside them.

The cleared wood returns to the village, where it is processed into firewood and sold, turning environmental care into practical, sustainable use.

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  • Five members of the Camphill alien clearing team standing together in waist-high fynbos with loppers in hand, cleared veld stretching behind them.
  • Camphill workers feeding logs through a hydraulic log splitter beside head-high stacks of split firewood under an open shed.
  • Four men in ear defenders working around a sawhorse, one cutting a log to length with a chainsaw in the late afternoon light.
  • Two large piles in the wood yard: whole logs waiting to be cut on one side, split firewood ready for sale on the other.

What our community has to say

Don't take our word for it, take a look at our reviews.

  • Emily TheartGoogle review

    Camphill dairy products are incredible!!! We also love going to their market on the first Sunday of the month. The kiddies play area...

  • Joshua VelosoGoogle review

    Everyone is very friendly and the things that are sold are all organic and mostly made by the individuals that are selling them, which is amazing.

  • Nicola MartinGoogle review

    have gotten to know the staff and residents quite well. Residents are cared for with immense kindness and compassion ❤️

  • Ann JonesGoogle review

    A place of tranquility and compassion, offering a home and community to those “normal” society deems “abnormal”.

  • Adele PetersenGoogle review

    Visited on market day. Some amazing products made on the farm. Bakery, Diary, Crafts, Bath and body stuff. Good people caring for less abled people.

A very special community of people

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Camphill Monthly Market

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Camphill Village invites the general public to join us for a lovely day out in the country at our monthly market. Our surroundings are relaxing and peaceful with beautiful gardens and shady trees around the market area, where visiting stallholders and Camphill residents set up their food and craft stalls.

Shoppers at the Camphill monthly market tasting cheese at a stall, with crates of vegetables and bunting strung under the market roof.
A team carrying a resident on a stretcher during a sports day relay, led by a marshal waving a yellow flag.

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