Certified organic · Made at Matatoki
Real organic cheese, made by hand at Matatoki
Award-winning organic cheese, yoghurt and cultured dairy, made in small batches at the Cheese Barn in Matatoki. Shop online, or come in for breakfast, a cheese board and an ice cream.
✓ Certified organic
✓ Unhomogenised
✓ No GMO used
✓ Gluten free
✓ Made at Matatoki
The range · Straight from the factory door
Shop the dairy
Cheese, yoghurt and cultured dairy made in small batches from certified organic milk from a local family farm. Chilled delivery across the Waikato, or Click and Collect from the barn.
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Organic Cottage Cheese
Price range: $9.10 through $51.20 inc. GST -
Organic Quark
Price range: $9.60 through $41.17 inc. GST -
Organic Sour Cream
$6.80 inc. GST -
Organic Cultured Buttermilk
$7.30 inc. GST
In the aging room
Good cheese refuses to be hurried
Every wheel starts as fresh, unhomogenised organic milk from a certified organic family farm nearby, and spends months on timber shelves in our aging room. That is the whole secret. There isn’t another one.
Make a day of it · Matatoki, 10 minutes from Thames
Visit the Cheese Barn
The cafe, the gift shop and a paddock full of characters. Bring the kids, bring the bikes, bring an appetite.
The cafe
Breakfast worth the drive
Big barn breakfasts, our own halloumi, and cheese boards made with our tasty award-winning cheese. See the menu
The animal farm
Meet the locals
Alpacas, guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and birds, and Pippin the friendly goat. Meet the animals
The shop and grounds
Room to breathe
Picnic tables under the trees, lawn for the kids, and the cheese and ice cream shop for a rummage on the way out. See the shop
Our story · A family farm first
Judged by the country. Made for the neighbours.
We have been making organic cheese at Matatoki since 1994, and the NZ Champions of Cheese judges have been kind enough to notice. But the reviews we care about most come over the cafe counter.
Everything is made here, by hand, from certified organic milk. No shortcuts, no additives, nothing we wouldn’t feed our own family.
Getting here · Hauraki Rail Trail
Ride in for lunch
We sit right beside the Hauraki Rail Trail on the Thames to Paeroa leg. Cyclists get a warm welcome, a full menu and somewhere shady to park the bikes. Drivers, we are on Wainui Road just off SH26, ten minutes south of Thames.
Hours
Tuesday to Sunday, 9am to 3pm. Closed Mondays.
4 Wainui Road, Matatoki · 07 868 1284