Farms and Produce

Our fertile fields and unpolluted oceans deliver Australia's best produce. Come and taste for yourself.

From the Land

With a 'growing' number of organic producers and specialty farmers 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. Our restaurants fully exploit the principle of fresh-local.

You will also find boutique cheese producers making a name on the Australian stage - one with a sheep cheese voted the best in the country; beekeepers selling fresh clover, bush and leatherwood honeys; and for its solid reputation in chocolate using milk from lush paddocks statewide, you will find craft chocolatiers, and Cadbury's (Kraft) factory which has a visitor centre where large discounts are given on purchases of factory 'accidents'; there are even lines not seen in shops.

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.

Direct from the Farm Gate

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. Increasingly too Farmer's Markets conveniently held in towns and cities are becoming the focus of many itineraries.

From the Sea

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 at punts and direct from trawlers at many places around the state.