Sages Cottage Farm

Smile. You’re at Sages.

Sages Cottage Farm is a 38-acre working farm, café, sensory garden and social enterprise in Baxter on the Mornington Peninsula. Open daily with free entry, it’s a place to eat, explore and reconnect — where good food meets good purpose.

Sages Café

Led by award-winning chef Zac Poulier (Stillwater at Crittenden), the café serves up seasonal, farm-to-table meals, house-baked cakes and seriously good coffee.

Popular highlights 

Meet the Animals: Say hello to goats, alpacas, miniature ponies, pigs, sheep, chickens and a few very confident geese.

Sages Café: Farm-to-table meals, garden-picked herbs and house-baked cakes, all served in the historic Baxter Barn. Chef Zac Poulier brings serious flavour to this relaxed, purpose-led café.

Farmgate Shop: Fresh produce, jams, plants and handmade gifts — all proudly grown, packed or created on site.

Sensory Garden: A barefoot-friendly space to wander, pause and relax.

Flower Farm: Seasonal blooms grown with care — picked and sold through the shop.

The Hub @ Sages: A creative home for storytelling, media and community connection.

Historic Homestead: Originally built in the 1850s, the Sages homestead is a reminder of the farm’s long history of gathering, growing and community.

You’ll also find wetlands to walk through, bushland to explore and plenty of open space to roam.

Sages Cottage Farm is run by Wallara Australia, supporting more than 80 people with different abilities through hands-on programs in hospitality, horticulture, creative media and retail. Every visit helps create inclusive, local jobs — and you’ll feel the difference from the moment you arrive.

Café, gardens, animals and farm shop — all in one welcoming place.