They say you can’t judge a book by its cover but in this case, the quirky line drawings on the packaging of this organic cheese and butter range really jumped out from the dairy case when we went shopping recently for nice new things at our local Hill Street store.

The individual personalities of “George”, “Bruce”, “Albert” and others which feature on these cheeses and butters are endearing and piqued our curiosity about this organic dairy company based in Victoria and, as the packaging says, was established in 1919.

Servicing the Bendigo region since then, Symons’ Dairy was established by Albert Symons. His son George took over in 1953 and in those days, milk was delivered by horse and cart or ladled into your own billy at the farmgate. Today a third generation of Symons, headed by Bruce, continues the tradition with fourth generation Charles and Nick Symons, great-grandsons of Albert, also recently joining the business.