OLD MATES FARM

20/05/2026

OLD MATES COUNTRY looking good for a weekend of camping
⛺️

Blue skies, cool nights, campfires, 🔥 starry nights

Maybe some marshmallows, damper, camp oven, hot toddy

Visit Yungaburra Markets Saturday morning.

Priors Creek Development in Atherton township. Take a look at this great new addition for locals and visitors to enjoy. Official opening Friday 10 - Saturday 11 July. Details to follow in coming weeks.

*photos 6pm & 8pm this evening
*BOM forecast for the weekend

14/05/2026

🌿 FEED & EXPLORE FARM DAYS 🌿
Every Weekend at Old Mates Country – Atherton Tablelands

Looking for a fun outdoor experience for the kids, family, or group?

Come and enjoy authentic Australian country life at Old Mates Country! Stay for the day and enjoy
🐐 Feeding friendly farm animals
🚲 Exploring bush trails & open paddocks
🌿 Picnic's beside the river
🐄 Meet buffalo, goats, ponies, sheep, cows, donkeys & more
🔥 Relax and enjoy the fresh Tablelands air

Perfect for:
✔ Families
✔ Weekend adventures
✔ Overseas exchange students
✔ Scouts & Guides groups
✔ Children’s birthday parties
✔ Small group bookings
📅 Available Saturdays & Sundays every weekend
🏫 School group bookings available weekdays by arrangement

A relaxed, hands-on outdoor experience in the beautiful Atherton Tablelands.

$15 pp - 9.00am - 5.00pm. Day Pass
$10 pp - 3.00pm - 5.00pm. for Animal Feeding (Starts at 3.30pm, approximately 45 minutes).

Bookings online essential. Sorry, no gate bookings.

03/05/2026

It’s going to be a busy Mothers Day for this Mum

28/04/2026

18/04/2026

“Are we there yet?”

Almost — just waiting for you to book 😉

It’s time to round up your family and your mates for the ANZAC and May Day weekends.

🌿 Family-friendly camping
🔥 Campfires
🦘 Room to roam
🐐 Animal feeding

And yes — it’s all nice and quiet again 👍

👉 Lock in your spot — book online

06/04/2026

What an absolute disgrace.

Agritourism operates side by side with farming enterprises all over the World, Australia, Queensland, FNQ, and the Atherton Tablelands. These businesses generally compliment each other and are often owned and operated by the same people and families.

There are so many examples of this locally, eg:
Christmas Tree Farm, Kaban Heights by the Pines, Mt Uncle Distillery, Lake Eacham Tourist Park, Bonadios Tourist Park, Shaylee Strawberries, Walkamin Caravan Park, Crater Mountain Coffee, Gallo Dairyland, and so many others too long to list.

However, somehow our venture gets different treatment.

Over this Easter weekend, our guests and ourselves, have had to put up with an extremely noisy Scare Gun deliberately pointed towards, and only 200 metres from, one of our camping areas.
The blasts from the scare gun have sometimes been going off at intervals of 30 seconds. All day long. All weekend long.
It’s illegal but our neighbours do it anyway. Authorities have been informed and they are working to resolve the issue.

The scare gun is placed on property owned by JOE STRAZZERI - BARRONESSA FARMING and is operated by sons JEFF STRAZZERI and SHANE STRAZZERI.
Another neighbouring property owned by RUSSELL LYNCH has also undertaken this activity in the past.
I assume they are proud to put their names to this.

This behavior interferes with our guests, families and children having the relaxing and peaceful experience they should be able to enjoy.

Some of our guests are local families, and others are visiting the Atherton Tablelands. Despite the unnecessary scare gun noise, they love our property, our hospitality, and the Atherton Tablelands. They are under no illusion as to the sort of people our neighbours are.

When considering the state of the world right now and the enjoyment that we provide to families, it is obvious what an absolute disgrace these selfish people are.

*scare guns are used for protection of crops from birds. There are no crops at the moment

*commenting turned off for legal reasons

Tony Freeman

03/04/2026

1 Campsite available.

There has been a cancellation of 1 group this afternoon.

To book:
Please email [email protected]

*photo 5pm today & BOM forecast

30/03/2026

A campsite (for 8 minimum) has become available due to a cancellation. This is for Easter and is a 3 night minimum.
Please book through the website.

Reporting for the team meeting this morning were:
2 piglets
10 cattle
1 bull
4 sheep
8 goats
2 buffalo
2 mini horses
2 donkeys
40 chickens
To many Guinea fowl
4 geese
6 ducks
3 working kelpies that don’t work much.
And a few kangaroos hiding in trees

Weather forecast is good. Cool at night, bring your jumper.

Fuel prices used to be better, but no shortage in Atherton.

Good deals from the local tourism operators including The Crystal Caves with 50% discount. Gotta love that.

Just add a few kids, families, campfires, beers, camp tucker, silly games, and we are good to go for Easter on the Atherton Tablelands 👍

Inquire online for Day Visits

03/03/2026

Hi Folks

*Camping” will be open for Easter and the school holidays.
$20 per person per night

“Picnic In the Paddock” – enjoy a day pass to picnic and relax with your friends and family around the property. Includes Animal Feeding. $15 per person.

“Animal Feeding”– Visit only for the afternoon animal feeding. $10 per person

**Animal Feeding will be held at 3.30pm each day during Easter and School Holidays.

**Please confirm your number of people prior to making your booking request as it is unlikely that you will be able to add people once we have finalised our bookings, particularly for the Easter weekend.

**The Easter weekend requires a minimum booking of 3 nights for campers.

**All sites for camping and picnicking are allocated by us. Let us know if you have preference when booking.

**Please make your booking requests through the website.

**Minimum 24 hours Prebooking essential. No gate bookings.

**Numbers are limited

May the weather gods be kind…

26/01/2026

OLD MATES FARM - A TRUE NATURE EXPERIENCE

Ecology * Culture * Heritage * Adventure * Conservation

We are seeking Expressions of Interest from potential future custodians of this land. Please distribute through your networks.