Tilbuster North Highland Cattle Fold is situated in a picturesque valley north of Armidale on the New England Tablelands. Elevation of the Tilbuster North Fold on the Great Dividing Range is around 1150m which provides for cold winters and mild summers.  The Scottish highland cattle love it!

All our highland cattle are registered pedigree of the highest quality . Our breeding aims for breed character, structural soundness and, quality and diversity of genetics.  Despite highlanders having a naturally quiet and docile nature, temperament is also an important characteristic for our breeding program. Finally, highland cattle are after all a beef animal, so carcass qualities are also important.

From time to time we have happy healthy (registered pedigree ) highland cattle available to sell.  Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing or breeding.

Our property is around 36 hectares (90 acres) of which we graze about 28 ha (70 ac) using a timed rotational grazing system (our variation of Allan Savory’s Holistic Resource Management).  Electric tapes, piped water and movable troughs are used.

Our highland cattle are naturally pasture grass fed.  We do not use chemicals, drenches or hormones on the cattle or pastures.  Growth of winter feed is planned well in advance and naturally grown in the pasture and left there. Our grazing practice produces very high biomass of diverse mixed native pasture. We have been certified organic, but found the annual fees for certification were not worth maintaining — though we may re-join sometime, we currently believe our ‘clean & green’ standards are higher than those generally required for organic certification. 

As part of our environmental stewardship, we work on producing high biological diversity in our pasture, maintain close to 100% ground cover and produce high volumes of natural organic mulch (which eventually becomes new soil). Combined with creek restoration, improving water quality, plantings of thousands of native shrubs and trees, we have increased other biotic diversity (invertebrates, frogs, birds, etc), this all adds up to greatly increased resilience and sustainability in the face of drought and climate change.