Strawberry picking near Geelong is a Bellarine Peninsula affair, with patches at Drysdale, Mount Duneed and Wallington all within about 90 minutes and most a good deal closer to the city centre. The season here runs long by Victorian standards, typically October through to May, with the sweetest fruit from December to February. Prices tend to be either a punnet-inclusive entry fee or straight pay-by-weight, so it pays to ask which system a farm uses before you start filling a container. Surf Coast Strawberry Fields at Mount Duneed is a good option for young families, with card-only entry that includes a punnet and separate smaller punnets for children. Lomas Orchards at Wallington, by contrast, is cash-only and charges purely by the kilo picked, so bring notes if that's the plan.
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Wallington · Geelong & the Bellarine
Around Geelong, about an hour south-west of Melbourne
Mount Duneed · Geelong & the Bellarine
Around Geelong, about an hour south-west of Melbourne
Drysdale · Geelong & the Bellarine
Around Geelong, about an hour south-west of Melbourne
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Surf Coast Strawberry Fields at Mount Duneed, Lomas Orchards at Wallington and Tuckerberry Hill Berry Farm at Drysdale are the three patches serving the Bellarine and Geelong area, all within about 90 minutes of the city and most considerably closer.
Drysdale and Mount Duneed are both a short 20 to 30 minute run from central Geelong, while Wallington is a similar distance the other side of the peninsula. All three are comfortably inside the 90-minute radius from Geelong itself and reachable from Melbourne in a bit over an hour.
The Geelong and Bellarine season is one of the longer ones in Victoria, typically running from October through to May, with December to February the peak picking months. Tuckerberry Hill tends to run weekends only across two shorter windows, so it's worth checking which weeks a specific farm has open before driving out.
Surf Coast Strawberry Fields charges around ten dollars for a 500 gram adult punnet or fourteen dollars for a kilogram, with a cheaper punnet for children aged three to twelve; it's card payments only. Lomas Orchards instead charges purely by the kilo picked and is cash-only, so the two farms suit different budgets and payment preferences.
None of the Bellarine-area farms require a booking; all three run as walk-up visits in season. Tuckerberry Hill posts picking availability on its Instagram 'Friday Fruit Report' each week, which is worth checking before you drive out, since it only opens weekends.