The Australian Pick-Your-Own Farm Index 2026

Australia has 610 verified pick-your-own and farm-experience farms across 53 regions and 8 states and territories, according to Pick Your Own Farms' 2026 national survey. Of these, 333 offer pick-your-own crops and 277 offer farm experiences only; 370 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 183. Every state and territory now has at least one listed farm.

What Australia picks

Cherry is the most widely offered pick-your-own crop in Australia, available at 77 farms, based on our directory of 610 Australian farms, verified July 2026.

The booking reality

71% of Australian pick-your-own farms require or recommend booking ahead, according to Pick Your Own Farms' 2026 survey of the 189 farms with a published booking policy — 92 require it and 43 recommend it. Pick-your-own is less spontaneous than most people assume: always check before you drive.

Family facilities

Of the 187 farms where we recorded it, 185 (99%) note kid-friendly facilities; of the 106 where we recorded it, 79 (75%) have a cafe on site.

Farm experiences beyond picking

370 farms offer a hands-on experience, across six categories — 277 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).