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Pick-your-own farms in Queensland, Australia
This page lists pick-your-own (PYO, U-pick, upickem, pick-it-yourself) farms in Quuensland, Australia, including the Brisbane area) with contact information, fruit or vegetables to pick, directions, opening hours and more.
I'm always looking for more farms to add (they're often hard to find!) If you have any to suggest or have any feedback about any you have visited, please click here to Suggest a farm or here to provide feedback! And if you own a farm and want to add it or correct the information, please let me know!
And if you want simple illustrated, instructions on making and canning (preserving, bottling, freezing, etc.) many common items, like how to make jam, applesauce, apple butter, spaghetti sauce, salsa, fruit pies, freezing vegetables, putting up peaches, green beans, etc., just click here. For tips on picking click here!
Harvest time calendar for Australia (tells when crops are available)
Queensland
- Amberley Edge Vineyard -
black muscat grapes
47 Clark Lane, Stanthorpe 4380 Queensland. Phone: 61-7-4683 6203. Email: relax@amberleyedge.com.au. Open: 10:30am to 4:30pm daily. Bring your own bucket bag or box, pay just AUD1.50 per kilogram. Normally available: February through March. Children welcome when accompanied by an adult. -
Brooside Olives - Olives
PO BOX 158, Inglewood, Queensland, Australia 4387. Phone: (07) 4652 1947. Email us at: brooksideolives@optusnet.com.au. Directions: 10 kilometres south east of Inglewood on Tobacco Road in Queensland Australia. The harvest season is between 15th February & 15th May each year. Tours of olive grove are available! We also have fishing - bring your own fishing gear. -
Gaeta Valley Organic Olives - Other fruit or veg,
1532 Gaeta Road, Gaeta Valley, Gaeta, QLD 4671. Phone: 07 4156 3519. Fax: 07 4156 3519. Email: sales@gaeta-organics.com. Directions: Take the Mt. Perry Rd from Gin Gin Qld. to Wonbah Road which is on your right, travel approx 50k mainly dirt rd and unfenced to 1532. Or turn off the Bruce Hwy at the Monto Kalpower turnoff drive till you see the Gaeta turnoff and keep driving till you come to 1532 this drive gives lovely scenic views and passes beside Mt. Gaeta it is a very lovely drive. Open: Monday to Friday 7am to 6pm weekends by appointment only Our olives are the very first olives harvested in the whole of Australia, they are grown organically and are harvested February to March for processing Payment: Pick your very own organic olives or buy a variety of organic extra virgin olive oil that is processed on the Grove. -
Gold Coast Christmas Trees - Precut Christmas trees,
1 Avalon Pde, Miami, QLD 4220. Phone: 18002425212. Email: goldxmastree@optusnet.com.au. Open: Monday to Saturday, from 10 am to 6pm and Sunday, from 11am to 3pm; Trees will be available from Friday 4th December to Monday 21st December. Click here for current open hours, days and dates. Directions: Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Visa/MasterCard. Gold Coast Christmas Trees in conjunction with The Real Christmas Tree Farm will once again be bringing quality real Christmas trees to the Gold Coast to help you enjoy the truly traditional Christmas spirit. You can now once again experience that fantastic evocative smell from our especially shaped 5 to 6 year old radiata pines. Simply go to Gold Coast Christmas Trees and order on line. (UPDATED: July 10, 2009)
Christmas tree varieties:
PreCut varieties: and other varieties (call!). -
Strawberry Fields - strawberries
133 Laxton Road, Palmview, QLD 4553. Phone: 0754945146. Fax: 0754945425. Email us at: info@strawberryfields.com.au. Directions: Opposite the Ettamogah Pub on the Sunshine Coast . We are open June, July, August, September, October, November. Our hours are: Monday To Sunday 8 am to 5 pm. Strawberries: Mid June to Early November. - Trost Family Farm (The Pink Fence) -
strawberries
55 Old Toorbul Point Road, adjacent to Bruce Hwy., Cabollture, QLD 4510. Phone: 07/54954295. Email: trosty60@caloundra.net. Directions: Take Toorbul Exit-Pumicestone Road-off the Bruce Highway. Farm is located on eastern side of the highway., near Farm Fantastic site, and opposite Humble Pie. Crops are usually available in May, June, July, August, September, October, November. Open: Monday to Sunday from 7.30AM to 5.30PM PYO Strawberries available from end May-early November Payment: As we do not send any fruit to Market, we leave our fruit on the bushes to ripen properly, resulting in good old fashioned sweet tasting berries. We welcome all groups from littlies to Seniors. Prepacked S'berries also available.
- New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
- Northern territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
In addition to listings of U Pick farms, I hope the following pages are helpful to you!
- Picking Tips!
- General picking tips and a guide to each fruit and vegetable
- How much do I need to pick? (Yields - how much raw makes how much cooked or frozen)
- Selecting the right varieties to pick
- All about apple varieties - which to pick and why!
- Picking tips for Vegetables
- Strawberry picking tips
- Blueberries picking tips
- Recipes
- Simple instructions:
- Canning and Freezing
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This page was updated on 11-Jul-2009
