Hazlewood Estate, a privately owned wagyu farm in the Gold Coast Hinterland, is one of a new breed of luxury farm stays banking on an agritourism boom post COVID. Image: Hazlewood Estate.
Find your farm-stay bliss
Keen to experience life on the land? Here’s where you can do it:
Hazelwood Estate, Qld
Pack your walking shoes for bushwalking and wildlife-spotting in the nearby Lamington National Park. Take a farm tour, learn about beekeeping and wagyu breeding, have a treatment at the day spa, then stroll up the gentle slope from your accommodation for dinner at The Paddock, Hazelwood’s noteworthy onsite restaurant.
Dairy Flat Farm, Vic
Groups of 12 can book out the entire lodge at Dairy Flat Farm, or couples can bed down in their own king suite. All reservations include access to the cedar spa, electric bikes and fire pit, as well as breakfast and one night’s ‘farm-house’ style cooked dinner. Book in for dinner at the highly regarded sister property and recipient of Dairy Flat’s botanic bounty, Lake House, just 7km away.
Callubri Station, NSW
If time is tight, you can fly into Callubri via a charter flight from Sydney or Melbourne. Activities include a daily farm exploration and ‘smoko’, an afternoon touring the crops and shearing shed, followed by sundowners at the station’s highest point. There’s also the unique experience of ‘moon bathing’ in two clawfoot bathtubs set on a vintage truck in a remote part of the property, with local bubbles and a grazing board.
The Pickers Hut, Tas
Accommodation at this sixth-generation farm close to the Derwent Valley is in a luxury (and historically fascinating) ‘hut’ overlooking pinot gris, pinot noir and chardonnay vines and verdant rolling hills, where the property’s merino sheep graze.
In WA’s Margaret River wine region, Burnside offers an experience for anyone interested in organic and biodynamic farming (and wine!) with farm tours and wine tastings. Accommodation is in one- or two-bedroom luxury bungalows.
Mt Mulligan Lodge, Qld
A 28,000ha Brahman-cross cattle station north-west of Cairns, Mt Mulligan is run with an ethical and environmentally sustainable ethos. You may be fortunate to be there at muster time; but if not, there’s plenty more to do, from barramundi fishing to bushwalking.