naturally flavoured milks to follow if Lisa has her way. Even yoghurt production could become a reality as they expand the factory with the aim to one day use all the milk they produce and perhaps even buy from other dairy farmers.

Jeff’ s girls are eager to make their father’ s visions happen, whilst introducing their own ideas along the way as they take on their various roles.

Paula is the herd manager. She and husband, Scott who is integral to the farming side of the business, along with their three children, have now moved into the house on the property.

Creative and innovative like her father, it was Paula who designed the logo of Jersey Fresh, originally drawing it with her finger on the condensation of a milk tank.

“ She’ s a bit high maintenance … and that’ s coming from her secretary!” laughs Lisa although it’ s clear she wouldn’ t have her any other way.

“ Paula lives and breathes cows, anything to do with breeding, milking, veterinary, calf rearing, feeding … she’ s this hard working little pocket rocket. I sometimes say Paula looks after her cows as well as her children and she’ s a really, really good mum!

“ We are certainly the sum of our parts. Scott does the cropping, Paula does the cows, I do Jersey Fresh, Mark pitches in too and Amy picks up wherever the slack is and that is incredibly crucial.”

Amy, the eldest daughter, is the one the family describe as a Jill of all trades. She follows in her father’ s footsteps as advocate for“ Cows Create Careers”, is a CFS member and helps Paula show cows at the

Royal Adelaide Show each year.

Whether it’ s balancing the books, milking the cows, or driving the truck, Amy is the one that springs into action when things need to be done. The mother of three, married to Chris, is also the state secretary for Jersey Australia and says she knew she wanted to work on the farm when she was seven years old.

Amy has a sense of humour like her dad, one all seem to share when they get together around the table with a cappuccino from the church outreach,“ Connections Café”, an example of the many community organisations they support and the only time the girls say $ 1 per litre of milk is ever okay.

Amy smiles widely as she describes their dad’ s“ master plan” for the property – an interactive dairy

centre complete with farm door sales, children’ s play park and milk bar reminiscent of the Cellar Doors so prevalent throughout the Barossa.

“ He wanted a big cow out near the road where you could slide out the bum!” she laughs.

“ You would tour through the centre and learn about the dairy industry and then you just slide right out!”

The girls have a giggle as they envision“ Grumpy”, the nickname Jeff gave himself, sitting on a stool in the corner of the centre,“ boring the tourists” with his cow chatter. He’ d be giving talks about life on the dairy and showing his collection of old milking machines whilst Erica would be serving milk shakes and simple country cooking from“ Ma’ s Milk Bar”.

Sure, it maybe a little way off and