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.
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.
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.
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
Pick your own cool climate fruits at Sorell Fruit Farm, in Tasmania’s south.
Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm and Café, at Elizabeth Town, is 15 minutes' drive from Devonport.
Attraction North West Coast Launceston, Tamar and the North Elizabeth Town
Bruny Island Berry Farm is located on breathtaking Bruny Island south of Hobart.
Cerise Brook Orchard and Chip n Putt Family Golf Course at St. Helens on Tasmania’s northeast coast.
The Emu Valley Rhododendron Garden is a stunning garden near Burnie, North-West Tasmania.
Wychwood Garden and Nursery, Mole Creek, is a stunning example of a beautiful temperate garden.
Old Mac's Farm & Fishery is located close to the centre of Launceston in northern Tasmania.
Tasmanian Gourmet Sauce Company is a production and tasting centre near Evandale, south of Launceston.
Collection showing the changes to fishing tackle over time and the history of angling in Tasmania.