Pick your own strawberries in Frances, SA
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Details may have changed. Call the farm before travelling to confirm what's ripe and that they're open.
REAL, genuine business - hydroponic strawberry farm at the hamlet of Frances (between Naracoorte and Bordertown), SA, run by Sam and Adam Frost (regional press names them 'Sam and Adam Frost'; a couple of secondary summaries said 'Sam and Mark' - the primary Stock Journal article I fetched directly confirms 'Sam and Adam Frost', so treat that as correct). Verified directly: Stock Journal article (25/12/2018, by Catherine Miller) confirms 15,000 hydroponic plants grown in coconut husk bags, fruiting late Oct-May, farm gate shop open 7 days/week that season, and - critically - that on Boxing Day and New Year's Day the farm 'will open its gates for visitors to pick their own fruit for the first time, until sold out' (i.e. genuine hands-on public picking, not just a farm-gate stall). A second 2018 regional-press article ('Sweet success for Frances Strawberries', Naracoorte Herald/Border Chronicle) covers the same business but the Herald URL now 404s for me (page likely restructured/removed) - kept as a source since discovery found it live. TripAdvisor has a real listing (g261649-d16040055) with ~30 reviews per an aggregator; I could not fetch TripAdvisor directly (403 bot-blocked) but its existence and consistent secondary description (cafe with scones/jam/cream, raised-row picking beds, family-friendly, occasional service complaints) corroborate an ongoing, genuine pick-your-own operation beyond just the two December dates. Cross-verified independently via Cybo.com (a business-directory aggregator) fetched directly: confirms name, phone (0419 202 276), email ([email protected]), address 27 Racecourse Road (postcode 5262, which IS the real postcode for Frances SA - confirmed via Australia Post lookups), geo-coordinates matching the Frances area (not Naracoorte township, ~25km away - 'Naracoorte' is just the postal locality name some directories use), and opening hours Thu-Sat 9-3. CURRENCY CAVEAT: the business's own domain (www.francesstrawberries.com.au, cited in the Cybo listing) no longer resolves (DNS failure) and I could not find any press or review content clearly dated after 2018-ish - so I could not independently confirm the business is still trading as of July 2026, hence status is set to 'unconfirmed' rather than 'active'. Recommend a phone check to 0419 202 276 before publishing live, or publish with a 'confirm before visiting' caveat. Checked against the full existing farm list - no match under any name/suburb spelling; there are no other Limestone Coast/South-East SA listings, so a new region is warranted as the discovery note suggested. IMPORTANT DATA-QUALITY NOTE: some initial AI web-search summaries in this session fabricated a plausible-looking address ('27 Racecourse Road, Frances') and a working-website claim before I could independently verify - I confirmed the address independently via a direct fetch of Cybo's structured data (not just search summaries), but flag this because it shows search-summary output alone was not reliable enough for address/phone-level facts in this case and had to be corroborated by direct source fetches.
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27 Racecourse Road, Frances SA 5262. From Adelaide, this farm is in the Limestone Coast and South East, around Mount Gambier, about 4-5 hours south-east of Adelaide.
Bring a hat, closed shoes, water and cash or a card for what you pick. Rows can be uneven underfoot, so a pram may be harder going in wet weather.
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Sources: stockjournal.com.au, naracoorteherald.com.au, tripadvisor.com.au, cybo.com, Facebook page. Is this your farm? Tell us what's changed.
Frances Strawberries at Frances grows Strawberries. Picking usually runs Hydroponic crop fruits late October to May. Use that as a planning guide only. What's actually pickable depends on how this particular season has gone.
On record for Frances Strawberries at Frances: a cafe or farm shop. Facilities not named above simply haven't been confirmed either way. Ask ahead if you're relying on shade, parking close to the rows, or paying by card.
