The Dahlia Patch Flower Farm
Alpine · Illawarra & Southern Highlands
Coffee-and-dahlia-harvesting sessions, grow-and-harvest workshops, guided harvest book clubs and on-farm Pilates/social events.
- Access
- Booking required
- Also pick
- Dahlias
Learn a real farm skill from the people who do it. The farms below run hands-on classes led by the grower or maker — cheesemaking, beekeeping, preserving, floristry, flower-growing and more — on the working property where the produce comes from.
Workshops run on scheduled dates or by private booking and often sell out, so book ahead and confirm what's included before you travel.
79 verified farm workshops & classes experiences across 8 states, each checked against the farm's own sources.
| Farm | Experience | Access | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canberra City Farm | Hands-on workshops, Seasonal events & open days & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Canberra Region, ACT |
| The Truffle Farm Canberra | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Canberra Region, ACT |
| Beltana Farm (formerly Pialligo Truffles) | Farm tours, Stay on the farm, Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Event dates only | Currently offered | Canberra Region, ACT |
| Twyllo Flower Farm | Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Booking required | Currently offered | Canberra Region, ACT |
| The Dahlia Patch Flower Farm | Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Illawarra & Southern Highlands, NSW |
| Bowral Honey Farm | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Illawarra & Southern Highlands, NSW |
| Oxley Hill Farm Flowers | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Illawarra & Southern Highlands, NSW |
| Wynlen House Artisan Village Farm and Learning Centre | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Illawarra & Southern Highlands, NSW |
| Chef Christophe and Josephine Truffle Farm | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Riverina & South Coast, NSW |
| Canoelands Orchard | Meet the animals, Tractor & wagon rides & Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Sydney Basin, NSW |
| Poppy & Fern (The Farm Byron Bay) – Private Open Field Session | Farm tours & Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Northern Rivers, NSW |
| Greenfinch Farm | Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Event dates only | Currently offered | Bilpin & the Hawkesbury, NSW |
| Wine Country Lavender | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Hunter Valley, NSW |
| The Giving Farm | Meet the animals, Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Booking required | Currently offered | Central Coast, NSW |
| Little Valley Farm | Meet the animals, Stay on the farm, Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Hunter Valley, NSW |
| Jannei Goat Dairy | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Seasonal | Currently offered | Orange & Central West, NSW |
| Mulloon Creek Natural Farms / Mulloon Institute | Stay on the farm, Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Contact the farm | Currently offered | Riverina & South Coast, NSW |
| RedGround Australia | Stay on the farm, Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Orange & Central West, NSW |
| Weeping Willow Farm | Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Central Coast, NSW |
| Southern Highlands Flower Farm | Farm tours & Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Illawarra & Southern Highlands, NSW |
| Artisan Estate Farm Stay | Stay on the farm, Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Booking required | Currently offered | Central Coast, NSW |
| Goodmayes Orchard | Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Event dates only | Currently offered | Central Coast, NSW |
| Alpaca Magic | Meet the animals, Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Riverina & South Coast, NSW |
| Bon Rean Highlands | Meet the animals & Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Sydney Basin, NSW |
| Bidgee Strawberries and Cream | Meet the animals, Farm tours & Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Riverina & South Coast, NSW |
| Babylon Farm | Meet the animals, Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Riverina & South Coast, NSW |
| Valley View Flower Farm | Farm tours & Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Orange & Central West, NSW |
| Ballinaclash Orchard & Cellar Door | Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Booking required | Currently offered | Riverina & South Coast, NSW |
| Curtin Springs Station Experiences | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Red Centre, NT |
| Towri Sheep Cheeses | Meet the animals, Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Brisbane & South-East Queensland, QLD |
| Elderflower Farm | Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Brisbane & South-East Queensland, QLD |
| Naughty Little Kids Goat Dairy | Meet the animals, Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Bundaberg & Wide Bay, QLD |
| Green Thumb Farm | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Brisbane & South-East Queensland, QLD |
| Curlew Ridge Flower Farm | Farm tours, Stay on the farm & Hands-on workshops | Booking required | Currently offered | Sunshine Coast, QLD |
| Windy Acres Farm | Stay on the farm, Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Booking required | Currently offered | Brisbane & South-East Queensland, QLD |
| The Rusty Rose Flower Farm | Farm tours, Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Booking required | Currently offered | Fleurieu Peninsula, SA |
| Riverside Wildflowers | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Riverland, SA |
| Charleston Farm | Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Booking required | Currently offered | Adelaide Hills, SA |
| Coffin Bay Oyster Farm Tours | Hands-on workshops & Farm tours | Booking required | Currently offered | Eyre Peninsula, SA |
| Kies Family Wines - Grape Pick and Stomp | Hands-on workshops & Seasonal events & open days | Booking required | Currently offered | Barossa & Clare Valley, SA |
Alpine · Illawarra & Southern Highlands
Coffee-and-dahlia-harvesting sessions, grow-and-harvest workshops, guided harvest book clubs and on-farm Pilates/social events.
Bowral · Illawarra & Southern Highlands
Suit-up apiary visit, honey harvesting, guided tasting and lunch
Bowral · Illawarra & Southern Highlands
Guided growing tour; flower arranging; soil and horticulture masterclasses
Bundanoon · Illawarra & Southern Highlands
on-farm organic vegetable classes, mentoring, consultations and garlic talk/tasting
Bungendore · Riverina & South Coast
Guided hunt with truffle dog Largo; growing insights; live French cooking demonstration; brunch
Canoelands · Sydney Basin
Regular visitors can feed farm animals and ride the weekend tractor; a Farmer for a Day program adds animal feeding, gardening, games and sustainable-farming learning...
Ewingsdale · Northern Rivers
Hands-on flower-school workshops teach participants to grow, harvest, design and create with farm-grown flowers; farm-field access is structured rather than general.
Grose Vale · Bilpin & the Hawkesbury
Ticketed flower-picking sessions plus creative and growing workshops such as Paint, Snip & Sip and a hands-on dahlia-growing masterclass.
Hunter Valley · Hunter Valley
Working lavender farm; guided experiences; wreath workshop; essential-oil and growing story
Jilliby · Central Coast
Structured farm experiences include cuddle/pat/feed animal sessions, Art on the Farm, You Be the Farmer, bee-hotel activities and Harvest Festival programming.
Laguna · Hunter Valley
alpaca husbandry/workshops; fibre and yarn education; farmstay
Lidsdale · Orange & Central West
Tour doe, buck and kid areas; hold baby goats in season; learn cheesemaking
Mulloon · Riverina & South Coast
farm tours, workshops, bootcamps and field days on cattle-grazing and free-range-egg enterprises; landscape rehydration demonstrations
Oberon · Orange & Central West
Year-round black and white truffle hunts; trained dogs; grading; cultivation and cooking session
Palmdale · Central Coast
Seasonal hands-on flower workshops and private farm bookings operate alongside pick-your-own flower sessions.
Penrose · Illawarra & Southern Highlands
Ticketed seasonal flower-farm experiences include farm tours, dahlia harvesting, pick-your-own bouquets, flower therapy and other workshops.
Somersby · Central Coast
Farmstay on a pecan property with blacksmithing/knife-forging and copper-jewellery workshops; also participates in the Central Coast Harvest Festival.
Somersby · Central Coast
The annual on-farm Harvest Festival includes fruit and sunflower picking, a kids' craft tent, local makers/food, picnic space and community activities.
Sutton · Riverina & South Coast
guided visits; walking with llamas; breakfast/brunch; donkey and fibre workshops
Theresa Park · Sydney Basin
Pet and feed Highland cattle; Paint and Pat sessions
Wagga Wagga · Riverina & South Coast
Guided educational farm tours for schools and small groups, sheep feeding, live-bee-hive viewing, farm-product tasting and seasonal ice-cream workshops.
Wallaroo · Riverina & South Coast
60-minute weekend farm tours; feed and pat alpacas, goats, sheep, chickens and horses; occasional goat-milk soap or fibre workshops
Wisemans Creek · Orange & Central West
Ticketed You-Pick events include a guided flower-field tour and bouquet creation; the farm also hosts seasonal workshops and small-group events.
Young · Riverina & South Coast
Cherry pie-making classes, Spring Blossom Festival, wine tastings and occasional live-music/lunch events in addition to fruit picking.
Abbotsford · Dandenong Ranges
visit working community farm animals; seasonal workshops and farm events
Blampied · Grampians & Ballarat
On-farm preserving, fermenting, sourdough and traditional-skills classes
Budgeree · Gippsland
The flower farm publishes bouquet-making and dried-flower workshops plus practical courses including Dahlia Dig & Divide, Growing a Cut Flower Garden, Flower Farming...
Cornella · Bendigo & Central Victoria
The Rent-a-Row program is a four-stage hands-on winemaking experience: pick and stomp grapes, press, taste and bottle the finished wine. The operator also promotes...
Gisborne · Macedon Ranges
The farm runs scheduled floral workshops and events. Its workshop page describes floral-arrangement tuition and a tour of the mountainside flower farm and cutting...
Harcourt · Grampians & Ballarat
The Fruit Crew is an ongoing hands-on fruit-growing skills exchange combining half-day orchard work with theory. Members also receive access to public workshop...
Lyonville · Macedon Ranges
Guided flower farm tour; dahlia-dividing and flower-growing workshops
Maffra · Gippsland
The farm operates a paid petting zoo with feed included, offers private strawberry cocktail/mocktail classes, and promotes lavender-field viewing plus extensive...
North Bendigo · Bendigo & Central Victoria
Structured school programs cover farm-to-fork, soil, seeds, worms, mini-beasts and chickens, with guided farm tours and selectable practical learning activities....
Silvan · Dandenong Ranges
The dahlia-picking workshop includes a relaxed tour of the market garden and instruction on how flowers are grown and harvested; private group workshops are available...
Silvan · Dandenong Ranges
The 1.5-hour flower-picking workshop includes an orientation around the bee-friendly flower patch, instruction in harvesting and flower care, and a brief farm tour.
Stanley · North-East Victoria & the High Country
Guided farm rambles through orchard, kitchen garden, nursery and animal paddocks; grafting and farm-skill workshops
Wallington · Geelong & the Bellarine
The orchard offers practical pruning, grafting, espalier and fruit-tree-health workshops; school/kinder educational visits; apple tastings; and tailored orchard tours...
Wattle Bank · Gippsland
Hands-on mushroom-growing and cheesemaking workshops with farm tour
Woori Yallock · Dandenong Ranges
Rayner's runs guided tractor orchard adventures with fruit tasting, picking and animal feeding; fruit-bottling classes; and structured school activities covering...
Yarrambat · Yarra Valley
Suit up, light a smoker, open active hives, inspect frames and taste honey with a professional beekeeper
Allenview · Brisbane & South-East Queensland
see sheep milking, meet sheep and taste dairy products
Kalbar · Brisbane & South-East Queensland
Flower picking; flower workshops; garden visits
Lower Wonga · Bundaberg & Wide Bay
Pet and feed a kid; hand-milk a goat; cheesemaking demonstration and tasting
Samford Valley · Brisbane & South-East Queensland
Chemical-free growing; composting; seasonal gardening; food education
Stanmore (near Woodford) · Sunshine Coast
The flower farm offers hands-on floral workshops, private tailored workshops and farm tours with flower picking. An eco cabin provides an on-farm stay option...
Westbrook · Brisbane & South-East Queensland
The 2026 programme includes floristry, painting, children's bee sessions, beekeeping basics and a honey-harvest experience. The farm also offers events, group...
Aldinga Beach · Fleurieu Peninsula
The programme includes guided farm tours and picnics, Snip Sip Arrange sessions, farm-tour teas, floristry and wreath classes, dried-flower workshops and private group events.
Berri · Riverland
Farm tour; seasonal wreath making; flower arranging using farm-grown blooms
Charleston · Adelaide Hills
The working flower farm offers Snip and Sip sessions and tailored private creative workshops and events on the farm.
Coffin Bay · Eyre Peninsula
wade to an oyster lease; learn sustainable oyster growing; see juvenile oysters; supervised shucking and tasting
Lyndoch · Barossa & Clare Valley
Kies offers hands-on harvest experiences involving grape picking and stomping, plus a scheduled winemaker experience with behind-the-scenes production content.
Marananga · Barossa & Clare Valley
The operator offers floral workshops at the flower farm in Marananga.
Paechtown / Hahndorf · Adelaide Hills
The farm offers a 90-minute self-guided educational flower-farm tour and 120-minute floral-design workshops, with children's flower-hunt and private-group options.
Robe · Limestone Coast & South East SA
The flower farm offers scheduled and private floral classes, including a small-group two-day Grow Your Own Flowers workshop.
Watervale · Barossa & Clare Valley
Organic-farm tour; produce picking; cooking masterclass
Willunga Hill · Fleurieu Peninsula
Visitors can book private Highland cattle sessions involving brushing, cuddling and feeding. The operator also sells children's farm workshops and a broader winter...
Carlotta, Nannup · South West WA
Bookable farm tours and workshops include goat and pig encounters, orchard/garden education, tastings and chestnut sessions, with a three-bedroom cottage farm stay onsite.
Cookernup · South West WA
Regular family days with guided educational farm tours, train rides, seedling-planting workshops and sensory activities, separate from the final PYO sunflower window.
East Perth · Swan Valley
guided tour of productive urban farm; composting, worm farming, propagation, flowers and food-growing workshops
Glenlynn near Bridgetown · South West WA
daily animal feeding; milk a cow; short tractor ride; damper making; selected horse activities
Herne Hill · Swan Valley
personalised honey discovery tour; observation hive; guided tasting; beekeeping and production interpretation
Margaret River · South West WA
Regular hands-on children’s farm sessions combine gardening, art and cooking and are designed to connect children with nature and food.
Birchs Bay · Hobart & the Huon Valley
visit a working sheep dairy; guided product tasting; learn about farm, cheese and whey-spirit production
Bridgenorth · Tamar Valley & Launceston
Boutique flower farm advertising onsite workshops alongside its seasonal flower-picking visits.
Buckland · Hobart & the Huon Valley
guided or self-guided farm walks; fishing; cooking school; arranged day and group visits on a large working property
Glaziers Bay · Hobart & the Huon Valley
walk a mixed regenerative farm; market garden and livestock interpretation; scheduled food and farm events
Lilydale · Tamar Valley & Launceston
Guests can join farm life through vegetable-patch work, a photo/tasting farm tour, supervised children’s sowing and harvesting, seasonal grape/apple pressing and...
Lower Snug · Hobart & the Huon Valley
Seasonal flower farm offering ticketed open-farm/flower-picking events, creative and practical farm workshops, plus special farm tours for schools, community clubs...
Mawbanna · North-West Tasmania
interactive beekeeping and honey-production displays; factory viewing; guided tastings and multimedia experience
New Norfolk · Hobart & the Huon Valley
one-hour guided productive-garden tour; harvest-led cooking classes using on-site produce
Petcheys Bay · Hobart & the Huon Valley
By-appointment lavender-farm visits include interaction with friendly farm animals, distillation workshops, private sunset tours and announced distillation/farm events.
Pipers Brook · Tamar Valley & Launceston
guided hunt in the truffière with trained dog followed by lunch and a wine masterclass on selected product
Smithton · North-West Tasmania
guided visit to a working robotic dairy; see milking technology and cheese production; tasting
Sorell (Tasman Peninsula gateway) · Hobart & the Huon Valley
Public $5 farm-animal feeding experience, school-holiday children’s cooking classes, and onsite accommodation where animal feeding is complimentary for in-house guests.
Fyshwick · Canberra Region
public workshops, events and working bees covering food growing, composting and urban-farm skills
Majura · Canberra Region
guided truffle hunt with trained dogs; farm and production interpretation; cooking or dining products
Pialligo · Canberra Region
2026 winter program includes guided truffle hunts with trained dogs, long lunches, truffle kitchen masterclasses, twilight hunts and an opening-night truffle...
Tharwa · Canberra Region
Small-number flower-farm events include the Sip + Snip picnic, where guests hand-pick flowers with food, drink and live music; bespoke private events are also offered.
Petermann · Red Centre
guided access across a million-acre cattle station; make or learn handmade paper from native grasses; station-history and land-management interpretation
These listings are desk-checked against each farm's own website, booking page or official social channel on the date shown — we don't book, inspect or endorse them. Session times, prices and availability change with the season, so confirm directly with the farm, and follow their safety, hygiene and animal-contact instructions on the day.
Bookable on-farm classes led by the operator -- cheesemaking, beekeeping, preserving, flower and growing skills. On this page we list 79 Australian farms offering farm workshops & classes, each checked against the operator's own website, booking page or official social channel on the date shown.
We list 79 verified farm workshops & classes farms across 8 states, grouped by state below. Availability and session times change with the season and the weather, so confirm directly with the farm before you travel — we don't book, inspect or endorse them.
Usually. Most farm workshops & classes run on set session times, by appointment or as ticketed events, and any farm stays are booked ahead. Each listing shows its access type — walk-in, booking required, seasonal or by appointment — and links to the farm's own booking page where one exists.