sorell fruit farm

Had the Sorell Fruit Farm on my list of places to visit, not to pick any fruit but to visit the Cafe for scones with jam and cream, and really enjoyed them, yummo!!, the lady did a good job as she informed customers, they were understaffed that day, these things happen, but was a lovely atmosphere in the cafe!!

I was travelling to Port Arthur and I was told to stop by here. I am glad I did. All the strawberries were so fresh and easy to pick. Excellent service. Thank you for the great day. Will be back for sure

our family had a lot of fun. It wasn't cheap - everyone who walks in needs to pay for a container - which makes it expensive but a great family experience, picking our own fruit, eating it and taking it home. we loved it!

We are visitors from Hong Kong to this farm. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed picking up fruits, such as: cherries and strawberries, from the farm. Though it is near the end of the season for cherries, yet they are fresh and sweet. My wife was so enjoying it and that she had accidentally made her clothes soaked with cherry colour.Thanks for the staff there, Once she learnt about it, she took out some detergent helping my wife to get rid of the dirt colour. They were patient, understanding and care. We were most grateful to them and would highly recommend visitors who are going to Tasmania to visit this farm. Derek Mo from HK

We had been here some years ago before they introduced the 'pay for the punnet as your entry fee' system. It seems weird, and I can understand why people would be peeved if they only wanted a few berries for their kids. However they must have a reason for operating this way, as their intention would not be to turn customers away. Perhaps people were going in for free, eating lots in there, and not actually buying anything. The staff were friendly and helpful. We were warned that the cherries were almost finished, and had been damaged by recent heavy rains. We still managed to fill a punnet, and although mostly small they were very tasty. The strawberries were disappointing - plenty available if you bothered to lift the leaves, but not very tasty. I had hoped they would be tastier than supermarket ones, but they weren't. The cherries ended up being more expensive than in the supermarket, but were infinitely tastier. We were told we could eat as much as we liked whilst picking, which was a welcome invitation. The cafe deck is very pleasant and relaxing, and there are some nice berry products for sale.

Just wanted to take my 2 children for a fun afternoon for them to experience picking their own berries as I have done many times as a child. However there is an entry fee to the field per person whether you pick berries or not. I have never experienced such a foolish rule. Adults $13.50. Children 7-15yrs $5 3-6yrs $3. This includes your tub to put your berries. I cannot eat berries so did not want to pay for or end up with 2kgs of berries. The lady at the counter would only let me in to supervise my children if I paid $13.50! Needless to say we left, very unhappy customers! Bad experience of Tasmania and the foolish/money making rules some people put in place.

Took my mother and brother that were on holiday from overseas to experience the very different types of fruit we have here compared to back home. Paid $13.50 each person for a plastic punnet that you can fill with any of the fruits. There were different types of berries (boysenberries, tayberries, silvanberries, strawberries), as well as nectarines, apricots, red and black cherries. It is a great experience for tourists. Having said that, I have been there before 5 years ago before they were this popular and it was a much better experience, as I guess there were not as many people then. The number of people that visit must have more than tripled but the number of plants have remained the same. This has led to most of us wondering around looking for non existent fruit, as I overheard other people say while we were there. We arrived in the morning, so there should have been plenty, but there were hardly any strawberries (I managed to find only 3 ripe ones, despite walking up and down all the rows), the bush berries were all gone (only a few green berries left), and all the cherries within reach were gone. There were plenty of beautiful ripe cherries at the top of the trees, so my 6 foot tall brother ended up have to reach up and fill our punnets as well because otherwise we would have had nothing.My mother saw a woman emptying her punnet about 3 times over the fence into a plastic bag held by her husband in the parking lot. Maybe that's where all the fruit went !If they are going to charge so much, and allow so many people in, then they must expand the number of plants they have to accommodate the number of people. We ended up with 90% cherries, and I could have paid $8 for the same amount at the supermarket.We had a snack at the café afterwards, but that too was overpriced for what we got.Overall, at least a one time must do experience for tourists, but don't expect excellent value for money.

Called in with some interstate visitors. Great way to sample local grown fruits and novel way of getting people involved by picking your own. Small shop selling locally made jams and preserves also tasmanian honey. Wide range of different fruits. You can purchase light snacks and devonshre teas and the area to sit is lovely and peaceful with nice gardens all around. The only downfall is the cream served with the scones turned to watery milk before we had finished. Please change the cream to real cream and then you will have the perfect Devonshire tea.

We went as a couple during the high season , it was $13.50 each but it included the picking and about 1/2 kg of fruit (about 2 plastic punnets). It was heaps of fun with a range of fruit . In season at this stage was tayberries,silvanberries, different varieties of strawberries, blueberries , logan berries , cherries , apricot and nectarine. Just a quick tip it's really hot picking with no shade so ensure plenty of sunscreen and a hat (especially with kids) .

Paid for 2 adults to go fruit picking. Each adult was $13.50 which entitles you to a large punnet container that holds up to 1.2kg of fruit! We didn't completely fill our containers and still had 1.17kg when we weighed at home. Fruits that we picked were cherries, raspberries, strawberries and another type of berry. Berries and cherries are full of flavour. I thought it was good value as 1kg of refrigerated stored coles cherries are $9kg and raspberries are often $5 for 250gm...Only improvement would be to update the signage of what the actual berries were.

The day was sunny and there were quite a variety of fruits to choose from - strawberries, cherries, tayberries, blackberries, red currants, nectarines. We had a great time handpicking the berries although one of us suffered a thorn wound afterwards. The shop had small sized jam preserves which were perfect for taking back home and the staff were very friendly and cheerful.

There seem to have been some very unfair and undeserving reviews of this place recently. It's a little difficult to find (in Sorell turn toward Port Arthur and about half a km a long the way you find Pawleena Rd on the left and the farm is 700m along on the right). It's not a strawberry farm but a fruit farm so be prepared to pick a wide range of berries, not just strawberries which were scarce in mid December. But the loganberries, raspberries, tayberries and cherries were plentiful. The charge is $13.50 per adult, $5 for children 4 and over. It's fun and a great outing on a nice day. The café isn't flash but coffee is ok.

My husband and I went with out two boys ages 3 and 1The kids had a ball picking strawberries, ate so many. It was a shame we didn't look at the when stone fruits were ripe as we were looking forward to them but we filled three large containers and had a great day.Friendly staff and nice cafe also.Would love to go back soon :)

I'd read up on family-friendly things to do when we stayed in Hobart and this one looked good. We headed out there this morning and had to ask where to go at the information centre because there were no signs in Sorell to tell us where to go. We found the farm eventually, walked into the shop and were ignored so we went for a walk around the farm until we could be served. That's when we finally got some attention though not of the desirable kind: the staff member came out yelling at us "There's an entrance!" I'm thinking, "duh, I just walked through it" then realised she didn't want to say the word "fee" at the end of the sentence. We weren't close to the plants and weren't actually picking and didn't intend to since the berries we could see from where we were weren't ripe yet. The sign at the 'entrance' described the fees for punnets with which to pick, not to walk through the farm. Nothing said we couldn't do that. We left straight away; we weren't going to return to the shop to be ignored for a while then charged per person where every berry farm we've ever visited in Victoria charge per punnet or by weight. Now that I read some of the more negative reviews on here, I'm glad we drove on.

we came here as an experience for our kids but were surprised to find that we had to also pay the adult price to accompany them. That was ok, thinking we'd just get some extra strawberries. After advertising they were in season and much looking on our part, we found they were not really in season and not ripe and asked if we could exchange our empty punnet for some already picked strawberries, ice-cream or other product in the shop. I was quite disappointed to find their response was that it was an "entry fee" and that we could not, so in order to get something for our $13.50 "adult punnet" we had to continue trying to search for somewhat small raw strawberries. A very disappointing response from management considering I didn't want my money back, just something for what I had already paid. While I found the customer service slack, I must say the cherries and tayberries that the children picked were very nice.