The Australian Pick-Your-Own Farm Index 2026

Australia has 585 verified pick-your-own and farm-experience farms across 58 regions and 8 states and territories, according to Pick Your Own Farms' 2026 national survey. Of these, 328 offer pick-your-own crops and 257 offer farm experiences only; 342 farms offer a hands-on experience alongside or instead of picking.

Where Australia's pick-your-own farms are

New South Wales has the most farms of any state or territory, with 180. Every state and territory now has at least one listed farm.

What Australia picks

Strawberry and Cherry are the joint most widely offered pick-your-own crops in Australia, each available at 66 farms, based on our directory of 585 Australian farms, verified November 2026.

The booking reality

70% of Australian pick-your-own farms require or recommend booking ahead, according to Pick Your Own Farms' 2026 survey of the 195 farms with a published booking policy — 103 require it and 33 recommend it. Pick-your-own is less spontaneous than most people assume: always check before you drive.

Family facilities

Of the 172 farms where we recorded it, 170 (99%) note kid-friendly facilities; of the 94 where we recorded it, 68 (72%) have a cafe on site.

Farm experiences beyond picking

342 farms offer a hands-on experience, across six categories — 257 of them offer experiences only, with no pick-your-own. Animal encounters and farm tours are the most common.

Method & limitations

These figures come from Pick Your Own Farms' directory, in which every farm carries a source URL and a verification date, and is re-checked on a rolling basis. The dataset is not exhaustive and some fields are incomplete — where a percentage is quoted we state the number of farms it is based on. Booking policies, prices and facilities change with the season, so treat the figures as a point-in-time survey, not a guarantee. Figures may be reproduced with attribution to Pick Your Own Farms (pickyourownfarms.com.au).

Licence — free to reproduce

This dataset and every figure on this page are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). You may reproduce them in whole or in part, including commercially, with attribution to Pick Your Own Farms and a link back to this page. No permission request is needed.

Journalists and researchers: the charts behind these figures and the underlying per-farm records are available on request — get in touch.

Methodology

Every farm in this dataset was verified against at least one public source — its own website, its social media, or an independent listing such as a tourism board, press coverage or a review platform — before being added. 459 of the 585 listings (78%) carry two or more independent sources, and each record shows a last-verified date alongside links to the sources used.

Farms are re-checked on a rolling schedule. Any that can no longer be confirmed as operating are marked closed rather than deleted, so the historical record stays intact. Pick-your-own and farm experiences are counted as separate categories: a farm offering guided tours or animal encounters but no hands-on picking is counted under experiences, not pick-your-own, so the two are never combined in the totals above.

Every number on this page is recalculated from the directory each time the page is published, so this page and the listings it describes cannot disagree.