Where to go fruit picking in South Australia
03 JUN 2026
Lenswood Pick Your Own, Adelaide Hills
Ambling through shady orchards and sun-warmed berry patches will transport you straight to the pages of a storybook.
Reach high into the leafy branches of a cherry tree and pluck a ruby-red gem from its mooring, bringing the fruit to your lips. With your boots set firmly amongst the loamy soil of the orchard, let the sweet juice sweep across your tongue — perfectly paired with warm rays of sunshine filtering through the green canopy above. You might have just stepped into a cosy Wes Anderson scene or an Enid Blyton novel, but no — this is just one of South Australia’s many fruit farms and orchards, where you’re invited in with arms wide open. Fill your basket with crisp apples, organic pears, gleaming strawberries, luscious cherries and rich figs at one of these top fruit picking spots in South Australia.
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Lenswood Pick Your Own, Adelaide Hills
Sticky fingers and juice-slicked faces are the signs of a successful day spent apple picking. The first golden signs of autumn herald the apple harvest in the Adelaide Hills, when vineyards are painted in shades of deep russet and the orchards at Lenswood Pick Your Own are heavy with fruit. Bundle up in hats and scarves and wind your way to the farm, where you’ll be free to wander the sun-dappled corridors and pluck your favourite varieties straight from the branch. Vivid granny smiths, shiny red delicious’ and crimson royal galas are available for picking at different points throughout the season, so you’ll be well-stocked with mother nature’s bounty from late February to early June.
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Beerenberg Farm, Adelaide Hills
You might have tasted strawberries before, but foraging for fragrant berries under the summer sun is a far cry from any punnet you’ll find on the supermarket shelves. Beerenberg, which means ‘berry hill’ in German, is a love letter to all things home-grown and hand-made, inspired by the Paech family’s Germanic heritage and their nearly 200 years of farming history in the Adelaide Hills. The berry patch is open from November through to April each year, so you can meander through the fields, breathe in the heady perfume of so-ripe-you-can-taste-them strawberries, and fill a box with luminous fruit.
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Glen Ewin Estate, Adelaide Hills
Figs have long been associated with the otherworldly — in ancient Greece, this pink-fleshed fruit was considered a divine gift from the gods. In the Adelaide Hills, you can worship at the altar of Glen Ewin Estate, where green and purple figs ripen in shady rows each autumn. Amble under fruit-laden boughs and harvest five unique varieties of fig, each with its own captivating taste profile — bite into the pear-shaped black genoa or the berry-flavoured Spanish desert. Fig season is best embraced as it comes — the orchard is open to visitors for a few days pending their season, anywhere from late February to early April.
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Paracombe Premium Perry, Adelaide Hills
Here, treasure is found on the gnarled boughs of pear trees. Paracombe Premium Perry is situated amongst lush wine country in the northern Adelaide Hills, encompassing more than 50 acres of organic orchards with woolly sheep wandering beneath fruit-laden branches. The farm’s annual ‘pear hunt’ kicks off from late February each year, when visitors are welcomed into the paddocks to pluck ripe pears and see behind-the-scenes of a working cider orchard. Once you’ve picked plenty, settle in at the farm shed with a bottle of perry and a sizzling wood-fired pizza.
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Harvest the Fleurieu, Fleurieu Peninsula
Bypass the market stall and head straight to the source. Drive 50 minutes south of Adelaide to the rich soils and Mediterranean climate of the Fleurieu Peninsula, where Harvest the Fleurieu is tucked away amongst a sea of vineyards in Mount Compass. Pop on a hat and head out into the strawberry patch, where you’ll get your hands dirty plucking ripe fruit from the sun-warmed earth — and tasting a berry or two for good measure. Pick-your-own season takes place from October to May each year.
Harben Vale Pick Your Own Cherries, Adelaide Hills
Cherry season in South Australia is a celebration in and of itself. Maybe it’s the fact that cherry harvest coincides with the summer months, when the days are warm and long, calendars brim with end-of-year festivities and invitations flow freely — but cherries in December are a harbinger of good times. As the mercury rises, the orchards at Harben Vale grow heavy with deep burgundy fruit, branches bowing gracefully towards the earth and the outstretched hands of those who have stepped inside the farm gates. Visit the orchard between January and December to fill a bucket with these tart delicacies.
Cherries at Verdun, Adelaide Hills
Here, cherries are a living legacy. Stepping foot into the orchard is a little like flipping through a family photo album — one that is stained by cherry juice, dusted with dried mud and smudged with generations of fingerprints. Cherries at Verdun is one of the oldest continually operating farms in the Adelaide Hills, and the ancestral home of the Gallasch brood for more than 175 years — and you’ll still find the family tending to the cherry trees or yarning with customers in the picking shed today. The orchard gate is propped open for just a few weekends each December, making for a short but plenty-sweet harvest.
