The produce-driven Farm Shop is open every Saturday morning. You can pick up in-season vegetables straight from the paddock.
You can also taste and buy their stunning, award-winning cheese, including Camembert, Gouda, Caerphilly, and Buffalo Mozzarella.
Melville Park also regularly hosts markets and events, such as Sip N Paint by Scout & Daisy – Made by Hand
Owners and entrepreneurs, David Doepel and Barbara Connell, are dedicated to revitalising Melville Park.
They have re-established the farm, growing heirloom vegetables and herbs, grazing cattle and dairy cows, and caring for the Brunswick River riparian zone.
The historic barn will soon become the barrel-ageing room for a new distillery. Here, they will feature Calvados-style apple brandy, whiskey, and traditional vodka made from on-farm sugar beets and potatoes.
Brunswick was one of the first farming districts of the Western Australia colony. Melville Park was settled shortly after 1849 by the Flaherty family and then taken over by Alfred Moore.
There were many landowners, including (1880) David Eedle, then his son-in-law Robert Heppingstone; (1882) James Moore of Bunbury, then his brother Arthur; (1890) John James Sharp of Brunswick; (1900) Samuel Peter Mackay of Roebourne; (1912) William Grant Forrest of Perth; (1922) Arthur George Heppingstone of Brunswick; (1923) William Charles Hill of Guildford and, in 1926, John Shine.
Sam McKay built the Edwardian/Federation Melville Park homestead and the impressive two-storey barn to store hay above the horses.
For a time, from 1894 to 1919, the State Farm rented Melville Park.
In 1948, the homestead was extensively renovated, including replacing the bull-nose iron roof with tiles.
