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Pick fresh berries and enjoy local delights at Gippsland's best berry farms this summerHead to Gippsland's berry farms this summer to pick fresh strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. Visit Macca's Farm, Sunny Creek Organic, and The Berry Dairy for family-friendly fun, local produce, and cafe delights. By news@gippsland - 5th December 2024 - Back to News Warm summer days got you hankering for a bowl of fresh, plump berries? Well, grab a basket and head for one of Gippsland's bountiful berry farms to pluck ripe strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries fresh from the bush. 
Craving fresh berries on warm summer days? Grab a basket and head to Gippsland's berry farms for ripe strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries Macca's FarmThe perfect little pit-stop on your way to the beaches of Bass Coast, the 'pick your own' strawberry field at Macca's Farm is easy-picking fun. They have a whopping 1km of waist-high picking rows, ideal for young, old and wheelchair pickers. While you're there, enjoy lunch in the on-site cafe, whose seasonal menu of farmhouse staples, breakfast classics and vegetarian options is created using all local produce. Be sure to take home some goodies from the on-site produce shop which stocks hydroponic vegetables grown on the farm, along with free-range pork and beef, locally sourced free-range lamb, honey, jams, cheeses, biscuits and loads of fresh fruit. Best picking time - September - April. 
Macca's Farm offers easy-picking strawberries, farm-to-table meals, and fresh produce. A perfect stop on your way to Bass Coast. Best picking: September-April Sunny Creek organicNestled in the verdant hills overlooking Trafalgar in West Gippsland, Sunny Creek Berries have buckets of berries just waiting to be picked! You'll find an excellent supply of raspberries, blackberries, loganberries, red currants and even youngberries. You can pick your own berries, but if you just can't get enough, you can also purchase fresh or frozen fruit and jam from the farm shop. Open daily from early December - late of January (excluding Christmas Day and New Years Day) 
Maffra's Berry Dairy, a family-owned farm, offers strawberry picking, a play area, petting zoo, and cafe. Enjoy local produce and signature strawberry ice cream Berry DairyA family owned and operated dairy and strawberry farm, Maffra's Berry Dairy is a family favourite for their 'pick your own' strawberries, children's play area, petting zoo and licensed cafe - all on a working dairy farm. The on-site cafe sources most of its produce from within a 100-kilometre radius, including Maffra, Berry's Creek and Tarago River Cheeses, wines from Blue Gables, Narkoojee and Lightfoot Wines, and beer from Maffco and Sailors Grave Breweries. Hot tip - don't leave without one of their signature ice creams, made right before your eyes using their own strawberries blended with luxurious vanilla ice cream. Open November - April 
Maffra's Berry Dairy, a family-owned farm, offers strawberry picking, a play area, petting zoo, and cafe. Enjoy local produce and signature strawberry ice cream Pictures from Visit Gippsland website.
Source: http://gippsland.com/ Published by: news@gippsland.com
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