Dairy Flat Lodge& Farm Daylesford

In 1984 Alla Wolf-Tasker opened Lake House in Daylesford and helped invent Australian regional farm-to-table dining; the farm to go with it took another thirty-five years. Dairy Flat is that farm — around forty acres at Musk, seven kilometres on, run on regenerative lines, with vegetable and cutting gardens, a vineyard, an olive grove and an orchard of 350 heritage fruit trees that now feed the two-hatted Lake House kitchen. You can stay on it: the Lodge holds six suites, taken whole for up to a dozen guests, with a cellar, a reading room, a cedar hot tub over the chardonnay and pinot, and a live-in concierge. The walls carry the late Allan Wolf-Tasker's paintings alongside work by local makers, and there's a bakehouse on site, with sourdough classes and beekeeping if you want them. Two-night minimum, exclusive use; ninety minutes from Melbourne on Dja Dja Wurrung country.