Milk taste without the waste

4 Feb 2026 • By Mary Anne Gill Share:

A milk moustache

Mary Anne Gill reveals how Kaipaki Dairies is reinventing New Zealand’s milk market with a farm-to-bottle approach that champions purity, freshness, and sustainability by delivering whole milk the way nature intended.

Ramesh Parajuli, Kirsty Parkes and Courtney Lock inside the factory waiting for the bottles to come through the cleaner. Photo: Mary Anne Gill

On a lush 200-hectare block midway between Cambridge and Te Awamutu, a quiet revolution in New Zealand’s dairy industry is underway.

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