With a growing number of organic producers and specialty growers harvesting crops from saffron to wasabi, along with high quality stone fruits, apples, pears, potatoes, onions, avocadoes, nuts and herbs, Tasmania offers local consumers and interstate visitors a chance to sample quality produce and flavours that you rarely taste in their just-harvested state.
You will also find boutique cheese producers, beekeepers selling fresh clover and leatherwood honeys, and some small and one very large chocolate factory.
Farms, such as Brickendon, at Longford in the northern Midlands, have been working their land for six generations. In the far north-west, at Woolnorth, you can find out about a farm owned and operated by the Van Diemen's Land Company since the grant of a Royal Charter dated November 1825.
If you are touring around Tasmania, the Farm Gate Guide will show you where to find produce direct from its source. Pick your own fresh Tasmanian berries, head up the driveway of a rural property with shed door sales and find out about seasonality and operating hours. The guide is divided into five areas, Huon Valley and Channel, South East, Northern, Derwent Valley and the North West.
Our cool clean waters grow Atlantic salmon - the clean waters mean their diet is natural, free from antibiotics and hormones. You will find the best oysters, abalone, mussels, scallops, crayfish, snapper, blue-eye trevalla, flathead and much more.
Discover the tastes, flavours and textures of honey at The Honey Farm in Chudleigh, Tasmania.
Attraction North West Coast Launceston, Tamar and the North Chudleigh
The Tasmanian Honey Company offer free tastings and factory pricing in Perth, Northern Tasmania.
Attraction Launceston, Tamar and the North Perth
The Cheese Shop in the Makers Workshop Burnie offers dairy products for tastings and purchase.
Attraction North West Coast Burnie
Mures Fish Centre is a Hobart institution, situated right on the bustling fisherman's wharf.
Attraction Hobart and Surrounds Hobart
During the January and February harvest time, pick your own blueberries
Attraction Hobart and Surrounds Lymington
Kate's Berry Farm, just near Swansea, is one of Tasmania's treasures.
Fresh fish and seafood - live if possible - is the philosophy of Dunalley Fish Market.
Attraction Hobart and Surrounds Dunalley
The Emu Valley Rhododendron Garden is a stunning garden near Burnie, North-West Tasmania.
Attraction North West Coast Burnie
The Pyengana Dairy Company makes award-winning, traditional cheeses, in Pyengana, north east Tasmania.
Attraction Launceston, Tamar and the North East Coast Pyengana
Fleurtys is a farm and café at Birchs Bay, on southern Tasmania’s D’Entrecasteaux Channel.