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    SHULZ ORGANIC DAIRY: MAKING THE CHANGE

    Oct 15, 2019 4 minutes
    Words by Robyn Rosenfeldt
    Photos by Ethan Lewis

    Simon Shulz is taking a stand. After watching the War on Waste back in 2017, Simon realised that as a producer of milk, he was directly contributing to the problem of single-use plastics. He decided then and there to do something about it and three months later he was trialling a range of milk sold in reusable glass bottles.

    Simon Shulz is a third-generation dairy producer and farmer. With his father he runs Shulz Organic Dairy in Timboon, in southwest Victoria. He lives there with his wife, Abbey, and their three, soon-to-be four, children.

    A FAMILY LEGACY

    His grandfather bought the property in 1972 and ran it biodynamically, later converting to certified organic. He opened a

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