Along the beautiful back roads of Durbanville, home to many of the Cape’s finest wine farms, is where Fair Cape Dairies‘ 2000 hectare sized farm can be found.

The Fair Cape Milking Parlour is home to over 3,500 cows with over 1,500 of these cows being milked three times per day.

Fair Cape Dairies partnered with Woolworths on their My School programme and started welcoming schools from around the Western Cape to visit the milking parlour, providing them with the opportunity to learn not only about the Fair Cape brand, but also about dairy farming as a whole as well as about the cows and the Fair Cape farming operations.

The Fair Cape school tours are targeted specifically at Grade 4 learners as dairy farming forms a part of their Geography and EMS curriculum. Since the launch of the school tours in 2006, the Fair Cape farm has seen over approximately 30,000 learners experience dairy farming at its best.

The school tour allows learners to gain more knowledge about the milking process of the cows and provides them with a better understanding of where their dairy products come from – from the time the cow is milked, up until the finished product can be found on shelf.

Educators are also thrilled by the outing and always have positive feedback on the Fair Cape farm visits and have always complimented the benefits and the  that the learners take from the tour.

For more information on Fair Cape Dairies visit their Facebook page.