How much does pick your own cost in Australia?

There is no single answer, because Australian farms price three different ways and all three are normal. Knowing which one you are walking into is most of the battle.

The three models

By weight. You pick, they weigh at the gate, you pay per kilo. Most berry farms work this way. It is the fairest model if you only want a little.

By container. You buy a bucket, box or punnet for a fixed price and fill it. Read the rule at the gate: it almost always means level with the rim rather than heaped, and farms are quietly firm about it.

Entry fee per person. Common at cherry orchards, flower fields and sunflower farms. Sometimes it includes all you can eat while you are in the rows, with anything you take home weighed separately. Sometimes it is redeemable against what you pick.

Roughly what to expect

Prices move every season and between districts, so treat these as orientation rather than quotes. Every listing on this site carries whatever price the farm itself last published, in the farm’s own unit.

• Strawberries: commonly priced by punnet or by the kilo, and among the cheapest crops to pick.
• Cherries: the most expensive, and most likely to use a per-person entry fee. Cherries are a short, high-value crop and the pricing reflects that.
• Apples: usually by the kilo and usually cheap, because the season is long and the fruit is robust.
• Blueberries and raspberries: by weight, and dearer than strawberries.
• Christmas trees: by the tree, priced by height, and the range is wide.
• Flower and sunflower fields: usually an entry fee plus a per-stem or per-bunch charge.

Why an entry fee is often a good sign

It feels like being charged to shop. In practice a farm that charges entry is usually one that limits how many people come through, and a capped farm still has fruit on the plants at eleven in the morning on a Saturday. The farms that stripped bare by mid-morning and stopped being worth the drive are generally the ones that never charged.

An entry fee also usually means the farm has decided to be a destination rather than a wholesale grower with a side hustle, so expect toilets, parking and someone to tell you which rows are open.

Bring cash

A genuinely large number of Australian farms are cash only, and plenty more have card terminals that depend on a mobile signal they do not reliably have. This is the most common practical complaint people have about a picking day, and it is entirely avoidable.

What we publish, and what we do not

We record the price a farm publishes about itself, in its own unit, without converting it. Where a farm publishes no price, the listing says so rather than carrying over a figure from a directory or a three-year-old review.

That is deliberate. A stale price is worse than no price: it sets an expectation the farm never made and then argues with the sign at the gate.

Find a farm on the map, or see what is in season now.

Updated 27 August 2026