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.

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.

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.