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Affordable Licensed Raw Goat Milk Delivery This Summer – Ship‑Share

Ship‑Share makes Licensed raw goat milk delivery affordable with Jannei’s Ship‑Share. Licensed raw goat milk delivery is now affordable with Jannei’s Ship‑Share. Combine 24–60 litres to reduce freight costs and enjoy clean, safe, award‑winning raw goat milk delivered chilled to NSW and Victoria CBD. Our licensed raw goat milk delivery is simple and affordable. For example, ship‑Share lets friends, families, and food clubs combine their order to make raw milk delivery affordable across NSW and Victoria CBD.

Ship‑Share: Save Freight Costs & Get Licensed Raw Goat Milk Delivered This Summer

⭐ How Ship‑Share Works

  • Gather a few friends, family, or neighbours
  • Then combine your order into 24–60 litres (2–5 boxes)
  • Pay milk + freight together
  • Enjoy fresh, licensed raw goat milk delivered to your CBD location

It’s simple, fair, and keeps our small dairy producing the healthy milk you love. Additionally, We test our milk regularly-to ensure it meets NSW Food Authority standards. As a result, customers receive clean, safe, award‑winning raw goat milk. In addition, sharing freight costs helps every customer save money.

⭐ Freight Costs (Summer Season)

Victoria CBD

  • 5 boxes = 60 litres delivered for about $150
  • That’s $2.50 per litre freight cost

NSW CBD

  • 5 boxes = 60 litres delivered for about $45
  • That’s less than $1 per litre freight cost

South Coast, North Coast & ACT

  • Freight is also around $150 for 5 boxes

Moreover, sharing freight makes licensed raw goat milk delivery surprisingly affordable. Consequently, customers in both NSW and Victoria CBD benefit from lower costs. this makes raw milk delivery surprisingly affordable when shared.

⭐ Licensed Raw Goat Milk — What You’re Getting

Jannei Goat Dairy is fully licensed by the NSW Food Authority to produce raw milk.

Our standards:

  • Required plate count: below 10,000
  • Jannei plate count: below 5,000
  • No E. coli
  • Clean, safe, healthy milk from our own goats

Selling in Victoria

However, because of Victorian laws:

  • Milk is fully licensed for human consumption in NSW
  • In Victoria it must be on‑sold as pet milk
  • In contrast, Victoria requires raw milk to be labelled as pet milk. Therefore, adding the correct sticker keeps your Ship‑Share group compliant.
  • You can add a sticker to meet Victorian rules.: “Licensed raw goat milk from NSW. Clean for human consumption in NSW. On‑sold as pet milk in Victoria.”

Real Example: 60 Litres Delivered to Melbourne CBD

We recently calculated freight for Peter in Melbourne:

  • 60 litres delivered for $150 freight
  • Milk at $16.75 per litre
  • Delivered cold by our partner refrigerated transport company

This makes licensed raw goat milk affordable for any CBD group order.

⭐ Why Ship‑Share Matters

Ship‑Share helps everyone win:

  • Customers get access to rare, licensed raw goat milk
  • Customers share the freight cost
  • Cheese can be added to the box
  • Jannei can stay on the farm producing great, healthy milk
  • Communities support a natural product they care about

It takes passionate people — like you — who want real food and are happy to share the freight cost. It’s not always about money; it’s about everyone getting a win. Consequently, customers in both NSW and Victoria benefit from shared delivery.

⭐ Ready to Organise a Ship‑Share?

Just gather a few friends and prepay: After that add up

  • Your litres
  • PLus your share of freight, then place your order for 24–60 litres during our summer season.
  • Next, gather a few friends and decide on your combined order. Then, simply prepay your litres and freight. Finally, your milk arrives chilled and ready to enjoy. We deliver your milk chilled to your CBD location.

Fresh, licensed raw goat milk delivered to your door — simple, legal, and shared. On the invoice freight will be added separately and if need be, just adjust the figures slightly for your customers. Ultimately, Ship‑Share brings people together to enjoy clean, healthy raw goat milk.

Organise a Ship‑Share -Group Order

  1. Gather a few friends or family
  2. Choose a fortnightly summer order
  3. Select 24–60 litres
  4. Prepay milk + freight
  5. Finally Jannei delivers chilled milk directly to your CBD address. Furthermore, our refrigerated transport keeps your milk fresh on arrival.

How Ship‑Share Saves You Money on Freight

In addition, when you group your order, freight becomes a small add‑on instead of a major cost. You can order 24–60 litres (2–5 boxes) during our summer season and split the freight between your group.

  • Victoria CBD: 60 litres delivered for about $150 (≈ $2.50 per litre freight)
  • NSW CBD: 60 litres delivered for about $45 (≈ $1 per litre freight)
  • South Coast, North Coast & ACT: Freight also approx. $150 for 60 litres

Sharing the order makes premium raw milk accessible for any CBD location.

Cheese can be added to the box at no extra freight cost.

❤️ Why We Offer Ship‑Share

Ultimately Ship‑Share helps everyone win. Because of this you save money, we reduce waste, and our small dairy can stay on the farm producing healthy, natural raw milk. It’s not always about money — it’s about community, passion, and sharing a product people care deeply about. Meanwhile Jannei can stay on the farm producing healthy milk. Which lots of customers say- PLEASE DON’T STOP! Ultimately, Ship‑Share supports small farming and healthy food communities.

Ultimately, ship‑Share supports everyone involved. Everyone has a win by reducing freight and supporting small dairy farming. Because of this, customers can access licensed raw goat milk delivery at an affordable price.

Moreover, our milk consistently meets strict NSW Food Authority standards

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Spring has finally sprung at Jannei goat dairy-

Our mums are dropping kids again and we are endevouring to develop and add new services to the farm . With the onset of many cute baby kids about the place we have been thinking we should get our farm walk s, baby cuddles and even some baby bottle feeding established .

Processes!

It will mean a few more things to organise like young farm hands and staff to help with these activities and also continue on at the cellar door with cheese tasting, product purchases and alfresco enjoyment for customers with beverages and snack offerings. picnics available on site for customers booking!

We hope to do these on our normal open days as well as offer special direct bookings for groups looking for a different kind of morning tea experiences.

Services!

So, look out on our web site for our new services and add Ons. There may be a few bumps along the way as we iron out different management issues, but we hope these won’t cause too many dramas. Our aim is to share the blessings God has given us at Jannei with others. Plus provide added income that supports the farms priority focus which was always to supply a quality natural raw milk to our customers, who value wholesome natural products. Jannei is an intensive farm business providing raw milk, raw kefir, cheese and yoghurt.

Full Circle ahead-

Jannei has spent 30 years going full circle from milk to cheese to milk and Kefir. We kept with our raw milk and refined it and our harvesting to the quality it is being appreciated for today. On the way we had to learn to make cheese and we did – we achieved multiple awards, bronze, silver and gold at show levels and national level – to champion awards of shows. When customers buy our cheese along with their raw milk orders, they are helping us sell the excess milk that has been produced in summer months into cheese. The farm is very slow in winter for 3 months sales in cheese help us balance the costs of running all year.

Jannei Delivery Costs

In summer we don’t charge for our packing and packaging and delivery to Sydney- so more in your box’s helps us and gives you good products for consuming. The freight charge goes to our Sydney freight for delivery to homes. Depot to home address alone. Our product sales are the main thing that drive our focus and sustainability. So, remember not everything you eat has to be raw to give you good nutrition. The preservatives and fillers in other foods are far worse than Jannei cheese so have some heathy Jannei product gems in the fridge for the month food plan. Remember they are totally healthy, digestible and award-winning quality.

Jannei Kid Cuties and daffodils-

See our kiddy photos attached – don’t forget to check out our farm experiences. At present it is daffodil and blossom time in the garden it’s always amazing to see the garden come to life and the native birds hanging out – chirping away. Our walk around the farm will provide spots to stop and enjoy the farm life.

Sarah Enjoys one on one with 2024 baby kids.
Kids love to say hello and our new trail coming soon will take you to see the bucks and the adorable teenagers.

Early Spring Jonquils

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School Holidays , Tidy-up time and lots of Cheese-

That’s what is on the brain this January. Welcome everyone to 2026- Our deliveries to customers commence again this coming week. How we manage to get away from the farm is a testament to pure will power. Seeing family on these special occasions is important to us. Friends also, but guess what everyone is busy doing the same so not always easy. As always if having a break is still on the agenda for you we pray you stay safe .

Our dairy shop times are back to normal from today. We are planning to do repairs and maintenance on the farm if quiet , so bookings help us plan. Use our booking site if you want to visit for a cheese tasting. See our web site for information on shops we deliver to weekly and remember you can bulk order in summer.

Remember we do have beverages and small cheese plates to enjoy. +You can let the kids stretch their legs and have fun seeing the goat kids and our friendly dogs. We have clean amenities on site . Entrance to our amenities and shop have disabled access. Dogs visiting have to be on a leash.

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Take your cheese board to the next level!

Winter at Jannei Goat Dairies: A Season for Aged and Marinated Goat Cheese

As winter settles in, our goats take things a little slower — but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on delicious cheese. At Jannei Goat Dairies, we’ve prepared plenty of cheese made during the warmer months, ready for you to enjoy through winter and into spring.

Seasonal Cheese Selection

Our Lidsdale aged goat cheese and marinated feta are two of our favourites for the cooler months. The Lidsdale, a semi-hard artisan cheese, offers a rich, layered flavour that pairs beautifully with a crisp Sauvignon Blanc or even a drizzle of honey. The marinated feta, made from our own goat’s milk, brings a creamy, tangy note to salads, grazing boards, and warm winter dishes.

You’ll also find fresh curd and pressed curd available year-round — perfect for those who enjoy lighter, more delicate cheeses.

Buying Local and Supporting the Herd

When you order directly from our online shop, you’ll receive cheese with long best-before dates and the best delivery value. It’s an easy way to keep your fridge stocked with Australian goat cheese for any occasion, while helping to support our goats through the quieter winter months.

Each purchase goes directly toward feeding and caring for our herd as they raise their kids — ready to provide fresh, creamy milk again in spring and summer.

Delivery and Local Stockists

We deliver refrigerated orders to homes in Sydney’s CBD for a flat freight rate of $25, and we’re working on expanding affordable delivery to other areas.

If you’re in the Blue Mountains, you can find our cheeses locally at:

  • Springwood IGA – LLOYD’S
  • Katoomba Co-Op

You can also visit us directly on the Castlereagh Highway, where our farm factory and cellar door are open for purchases.

Fresh Milk and Kefir

Supplies of fresh milk and kefir are limited during winter, so we recommend placing your orders early. Your ongoing support helps us continue our work as local farmers and cheesemakers — keeping traditional, small-scale goat dairying alive in regional New South Wales.

Enjoy the warmth of winter with a touch of Jannei flavour.
Discover our range of Australian goat cheese online, and bring a taste of the farm to your next gathering.

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Marinated Goat’s Cheese now avaliable through our website!

Jannei Creamy Fetta, spelt with two t’s, is a beautiful summer cheese. Handmade and packed on farm- these marinated jars of fetta goat milk cheese, are a Farmers Market favourite.

We make our goat milk feta in summer. Our marinated goat milk cheese, aims to capture the same charm as finding us at a market. Each jar is carefully filled to the brim with handmade labels — perfect for gifting at any time of year.

These days, Jannei is at three markets, but we’re proud to remember our beginnings. We were at Eveleigh Markets in its first year — winter 2010 — and that year it won Best Market in Sydney. Before that, we were at Pyrmont Farmers Market from 1998 until 2007. In 2007, we won seven awards at the Royal Easter Show, and soon after, Neil had open-heart surgery. Amazingly, he’s still here, making outstanding cheese every day.

Over the years, getting to markets has become more challenging. Between the setup, travel, market fees, and petrol, you have to sell a lot just to cover costs.

At Jannei, we’re a small farm making small batches of all our products. Everything we make starts with our farm-harvested raw goat milk, and our marinated cheeses are no exception. Our focus is on high-quality food in every package or jar — no shortcuts, no preservatives, no stale products, and no cheap fillers. You can taste the care in every bite.

The Product

Marinated Goats Cheese Fetta-
Is a semi hard goats milk cheese with a creamy lingering back palette flavour  . These fresh subtle favours entice you back for more .  Made on farm during  summer months . Fetta is stored in a 10% salt brine and packed from these bulk containers, into smaller units.
It is a A GM free Product.
Ingredients: Pasteurised Goats Fetta cheese, Sunflower oil, Locally grown Extra Virgin Olive Oil,   Roasted Garlic, herbs and seasonings-non animal rennet and cultures.
 
Store at 5 degrees-CELCIUS
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
SERVING SIZE 60gm   SERVINGS PER PACK 5
AVERAGE                                   PER 10GM                                      PER100GM
ENERGY                                      104kj                                                1038kj
PROTEIN                                    1-GM                                                  10.3GM
FAT TOTAL                                  1.9GM                                               19GM
-saturated                                    1.3GM                                              13.3GM
CARBOHYDRATE
TOTAL                                            0.9GM                                                9.4GM
SUGARS                                         0.2GM                                                1.9GM
SODIUM                                         11MG                                                 111MG: Marinated Goat’s Cheese now avaliable through our website!

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Open day picnic review

The Farm Picnic day went well.

The day was blustery and cool so we think that deterred people but the experience was still fun for those that came. We had lots of complements on the cheese being delicious.

Everyone enjoyed holding the baby Kids. The girls helped here and where great. The Boys helped on the farm trail and everyone helped get the farm ready so Wow! Spring cleaning all done!

The farm looks great even the wisteria is in flower, usually eaten by now by Crimson Rosella’s! It was a great trial run and we hope to develop the idea so more families know about it. Anyway check out the photos below on it when you get time and give us any suggestions or feed back.

If you have a group that wants to visit the farm please contact us via email or phone and organise a time. We would love to have you. You might be travelling past please drop in, call or email if you want make sure we don’t miss you!

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Jannei – School Holidays Picnic

This is late notice but families and singles who love our cheese or goats are welcome at our picnic day. We are having 1/2 hourly tours of the farm & tastings of cheese 11am till 3pm October the 3rd. B.Y.O picnic.

Then also a mud map self guided tour to go slow around the farm and experience nature with the family.

The idea is to join a tour or cheese tasting when you are ready and in between have a picnic and pet the goats as you go on the 10minute walk /half hour trail. The goats will be fed at 2.30pm finish- 3pm.

Its $10 a family that’s two adults with children or $5 for singles. We are setting up a WC so all good. Praying for good weather now!

Download   Broshure here.

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A visit to Jannei Goat dairy

WE’RE LATE. It’s a grey rainy day in November as we head west along the Great Western Highway past Lithgow heading for Jannei Goat Dairy at Lidsdale. However all is well when we do eventually arrive at Jannei, as Neil and Janette Watson are too busy packing up their cheeses for the following day’s Pyrmont Growers Market in Sydney to be concerned about our late arrival.
The Watsons started their cheese making here in 1995 when Neil decided he wanted a change from teaching agricultural science at a school in Portland. When looking for an alternative income, it’s not surprising that Neil would be thinking milk. He grew up on a dairy farm in that wonderful, rain-blessed dairying country around Wauchope on the NSW central coast.
Initially they intended to sell their fresh goat milk into the Sydney market but found this was not profitable in the volumes they could produce. So Janette supported Neil’s experiments with cheese making.
He started with hard cheeses in 1996, but soon found that what his customers in Sydney really wanted was fresh curd. Just about the only goat curd available in Sydney at the time was coming from Gabriel Kervella in Western Australia. So local chefs and retailers were delighted to have a truly local product. From this base product, Neil has added many award winning cheeses such as their Bent Back Chev, Buche noir and Chevrotin.
Cheese making takes place six days a week and while Neil is busy with the curd, Janette uses her background in advertising and design to market their cheeses to an ever-increasing number of customers.
Jannei milks around eighty goats (mostly Saanen) from a herd of one hundred producing about 130kg of cheese a week. Ninety percent of this is delivered weekly into the Sydney market where Simon Johnson is the main distributor.
Diet for the goats is very important to Neil who goes to great lengths to ensure that every goat in the herd is in peak condition, thus ensuring the highest quality milk for cheese making.
In June 2007 Neil had major heart surgery. During his hospitalisation and subsequent recovery Janette took responsibility for all aspects of the business, including the cheese making. So now they often work together in the cheese making room. The weekly trips Janette makes to the Growers Markets she says are hard work. With the long travel time, some days are barely profitable. Jannette says she looks past the sales and considers it important to be there, as it is their only regular marketing exercise.
If you would like to visit the dairy for a tasting or purchases of their cheese, phone first to check that either Neil or Janette are available. Blessed are the cheese makers.

article by – RF. Russell Smith, www.regionalfood.com.au

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An interview on ABC

Farming dairy goats and making award-winning cheeses isn’t something Neil Watson planned.

It’s a career, business and lifestyle he and wife Janette just sort of fell into.

“We started in 1995 and it sort of happened by mistake really,” he laughs.

“We had 40 acres and we thought ‘surely there’s some sort of farming we can do on a small acreage and make a living’.

“So we decided to try dairy goats.”

The couple bought a small mob of dairy goats and started farming them as a hobby west of Lithgow in NSW.

“The cheese making happened when we realised that selling fresh milk was quite competitive.”

“We then decided to experiment with cheese making and we found out we could do it,” Mr Watson laughs.

“Although I was trained in agriculture, I wasn’t specifically trained in cheese making.

“So over the years it’s just gradually developed and grown and it’s turned into quite a successful small business.”

The couple has won dozens of awards for their cheeses.

“It’s pretty hard to win awards, it’s quite competitive,” Mr Watson says.

“But we always manage to win here and there.

“We won our first award in 1998 at the Australian Specialist Cheesemakers’ Association Cheese Show in Melbourne.

“We make a number of different varieties of cheeses.

“Some are hard, but our most popular ones are the fresh cheeses, which are soft.

“Then we do some white mold cheeses as well.

“We also sell fresh milk and yoghurt.”

The couple’s cheeses are in high demand.

“Most of our cheese goes to Sydney to supply restaurants,” he says.

There are about 120 milking does at the Jannei Goat Dairy at Lidsdale.

“We milk up to 80 every year,” Neil Watson says.

“We sell a lot of the young females on the export market.

“But we keep quite a few too for replacements and to grow the herd a bit more.”

It’s currently kidding time at the farm.

The piercing bleat of baby goats can be heard ringing out across the paddocks.

“We’ve got kids everywhere,” he says.

“It’s normal for goats to have twins and triplets are fairly common as well.

“We shut the baby goats up in pens so they don’t wander off and get lost.

“Then when we let them out there’s big rush as they all try to find their mothers.”

After the goats have given birth and fed their offspring, the amount of milk they produce starts to rise.

“Our goats average about two litres of milk a day,” Neil Watson says.

“But it can get up to four or five litres.

“[That enables us] to get that cash-flow going and we can afford to buy in the grain and hay to feed the goats.

“We feed them lucerne hay, oats and grain.

“We’ve started buying the big bales of hay because it’s a lot more economic.

“Our feed bill is our main expense.”

Mr Watson says there are only about four or five goat dairies in NSW.

“We’re probably the only registered goat dairy in the state’s Central West.”

Interview by Brad Markham from Lidsdale 2790, Wednesday, 02/09/2009