Where to take children in Melbourne: Part Two

Want to pat some animals? Don’t live particularly close to Collingwood Children’s Farm? Chesterfield Farm on Ferntree Gully Road in Scoresby may be the place for you.

Children under 3 get in free, so we got admission for two adults and two children, two tractor rides and a bag of feed for the animals for $25. The animals are much more accessible than in Collingwood, and the goats, donkeys, alapacas, deer and water buffalo* are very cute.

One word of caution. They have a café but if you want anything healthier than a cookie you may was to bring your own food. At 1pm on Sunday, the pie warmer was completely empty and apparently the only other savoury item on offer was soup in a cup (as in that freeze dried junk that you buy in little packets at the supermarket, add water to and wish you hadn’t) for $3 per cup.

We ate at home.


I thought that this was the coolest thing we saw at the farm:








However, Bundle was far more impressed by this:






He is SUCH a boy.








*Why? Was there a meeting where they said let’s all brainstorm about what animals to buy this week? Was there some sort of sale on? Is the CEO even now yelling at some unfortunate employee “I said ‘bye, son’, not ‘bison’?” Baffling.