Our story

We are Jamie and Lara McCall and together with our family welcome you to our organic working farm. 

We offer a genuine agritourism experience. You can stay in our luxury farm bungalows, visit our organic winery or book a farm tour. 

A love of the Margaret River Region and ongoing lived experience in viticulture, wine making, organic farming and surfing has equipped us to inspire and help you make long lasting memories for your Margaret River holiday.

Our family all love to surf, swim, dive, walk and spend time outdoors.  Wine, cooking, self-sufficiency, animal husbandry and nutrition are all passions.

We also enjoy being involved with community groups; Giving back and being useful. Including; Nature Conservation, Local Bush Fire Brigade, Community Pantry and the Edible Gardens Festival.  

We mentor volunteers in the areas of small scale farming, Organic viticulture, market gardening and agritourism. We love to share  from our real life experiences and enjoy learning too.

Our organic farming journey

From the very beginning when we planting the first vineyard in 2001,  we decided to start the organic certification process.  Our three young sons were playing in the dirt as we planted our first vines.  We have found it challenging at times but not difficult, just a different way of doing things.  Patience, observation, working with nature and using animals in the systems are the key to our success.

What we do on the farm 

We both work full time on the farm.  Jamie looks after the cows, pigs, sheep and geese and gardens.  Also building maintenance  and fencing projects.  Revegetation and timber growing, viticulture, orchards and market garden. 

Jamie’s favourite thing to do on the farm is working with our cows, sheep, pigs and geese and the rotational grazing systems.

Lara looks after winemaking, wine tastings, accommodation, guests, tours, chickens, preserving food and the market garden.  Lara’s favourite thing to do is the morning animal feeding and farm tours with guests. 

We both enjoy helping each other and working together with our sons. March is grape vintage and wine making and every July we enjoy the routine of pruning the vines.

We have always loved the ocean and surf whenever it is good conditions.  In recent years we have embraced ocean swimming year round. This has been a fun challenge and now we love doing this together. We enjoy walking or riding to town on the Wadandi trail and exploring the Cape to Cape track.

The Future

Out three adult sons, their partners and young children all live on the farm.  Busy with young families and off farm jobs they are all following their dreams and also all have farm responsibilities. 

Burnside Organic Farm’s vision for the future lies in inspiring others to produce their own food, sharing their ideas about resilience for future sustainable living, and helping and encouraging others to create their own story. Building strong communities that are prepared for economic, social and environment