Next month the school will host the All Things Goat Festival, an annual event held in collaboration with the Central Highlands Goat Club and featuring a host of goat-related activities from milking demonstrations and a goat sausage sizzle to Victoria's only dairy buck show.

Principal Bruce Rolfe said the event was held to promote the benefits of goats.

"The school has hosted the event since 2004, when the Central Highlands Goat Club donated a goat stud to the school," he said.

Since then the students of the school had learnt to care for the goats and also how to make cheese and butter from the milk they produced.

Mr Rolfe said goats were popular in the shire, particularly with hobby farmers.

"There are a lot of small acreages around here and these are the kinds of animals you can have on a small acreage," he said.

"They're so friendly and make great pets.

"The milk they produce also has lots of nutritional benefits."

The festival will be as much for food lovers as for goat lovers.

Ice-cream, kafia, yoghurt and cheese tastings will be available and the event will also feature milk separating, butter churning and soap making.

Mr Rolfe said the students were preparing a puppet play for the festival that illustrated the problem of feral plants and how goats could contribute to eradicating the problem.

Other activities include a herbivores-only pet show, a car-boot sale and a plant stall.

The All Things Goat Festival is on Sunday, November 1, at Bullarto Primary School.