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Month by Month Fruit Picking Calendar

===April===

• Chestnuts (photo credit: Nutwood Farm)
• Apples           :       TNT Produce (drop-in, $2 entry fee, weekends) Bilpin Fruit Bowl (drop-in, entry fee, last day 25th April); Glenbernie Orchard(bookings required, weekends), Shields Orchard(bookings required, Thursday to Monday); Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, no entry fee, 27th April ONLY)
• Chestnuts     : Kookootonga Nut Farm (now closed), Nutwood Farm (now closed) and Campanella Cottage (now closed)
• Eggplants     : Canoelands Orchard (7 days 9am to 3pm, drop-in, fee to pick)
• Passionfruit  : Canoelands Orchard (available in 2020/21)
• Persimmon   : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, no entry fee, 27th April)
• Strawberries : Berrylicious Strawberries (set times, bookings required – 27th April)
• Sunflowers    : Food Farm Central Coast(honesty box – $1 each); Central Coast Sunflower Harvest at Yarramalong Turf Supplies (27th April, 7am to 2pm)
• Tomatoes      : Canoelands Orchard (7 days 9am to 3pm, drop-in, fee to pick)
• Walnuts         : Kookootonga Nut Farm (now closed), Nutwood Farm (now closed) and Campanella Cottage (now closed)

===May===

• Apples                    : Bilpin Fruit Bowl (Pink Lady); TNT Produce (Pink Lady)
• Mandarins              : Watkins Family Farm – Imperial, Hickson and Emperor (from 25th May)
• Passionfruit           : Canoelands Orchard (available in 2020/21)
• Persimmon            : Bilpin Fruit Bowl, Cedar Creek Orchards
• Strawberries          : Bilpin Fruit Bowl
• Tomatoes               : Canoelands Orchard

===June===

• Cumquats        : Watkins Family Farm, Fords Family Farm
• Eggplants        : Canoelands Orchard
• Mandarins        : Anderson Farm; Watkins Family Farm; Fords Family Farm
• Oranges           : Anderson Farm
• Passionfruit     : Canoelands Orchard (2020/21)
• Pecans             : Pecan Lady
• Tomatoes         : Canoelands Orchard

Harvest Festival Central Coast is on 8th to 9th June.

===July===

• Mandarins       : Anderson Farm (Emperor, Imperial, Hickson)
• Oranges          : Anderson Farm (Washington Navel); Schofields Orange Orchard (NO PYO in 2018)
• Tomatoes        : Canoelands Orchard

===August ===

• Mandarins       : Anderson Farm (Emperor, Imperial, Hickson)
• Oranges          : Anderson Farm (Washington Navel); Schofields Orange Orchard (NO PYO in 2018)
• Tomatoes        : Canoelands Orchard

===September===

Mandarins      : Anderson Farm (FINISHED for this year)

• Oranges         : Anderson Farm (Washington Navel); Schofields Orange Orchard (NO PYO in 2018)
• Strawberries  : Berrylicious Strawberries (late September/ early October)
• Tomatoes       : Canoelands Orchard

===October===

• Nectarines     : Canoelands Orchard (from about mid-October)
• Oranges         : Anderson Farm (until early October)
• Peaches         : Canoelands Orchard (from about mid-October)
• Strawberries  : Berrylicious Strawberries
• Tomatoes       : Canoelands Orchard (until early October)

===November===

• Nectarines
• Apricots
• Pine Crest Orchard (late November)
• Cherries
• Pine Crest Orchard (set times from 10th November, no bookings required)
• Bilpin Fruit Bowl (late November)
• Nectarines
• Canoelands Orchard (open daily, no bookings required);
• Cedar Creek Orchards (set times on weekends and Wednesdays from 10th November, bookings required);
• Glenbernie Orchard (have not yet announced opening times for 2018)
• Peaches
• Canoelands Orchard (open daily, no bookings required);
• Cedar Creek Orchards (set times on weekends and Wednesdays from 24th November, bookings required);
• Glenbernie Orchard (have not yet announced opening times for 2018);
• Bilpin Fruit Bowl (mid November)
• Plums
• Canoelands Orchard (late November)
• Raspberries
• Glenbernie Orchard (have not yet announced opening times for 2018)
• Strawberries
• Berrylicious Strawberries (set times, bookings required);
• Bilpin Fruit Bowl (set times on weekends from 11th November, no bookings required)

===December===

• Cherries           :  George and Sue’s Cherry Farm, Bathurst)
• Apricots           :   Pine Crest Orchard (finished)
• Cherries           : Pine Crest Orchard (finished)
• Nectarines       : Bilpin Fruit Bowl (weekends); Canoelands Orchard(FINISHED NOW)
• Peaches           : Pine Crest Orchard (Friday-Sunday, NO bookings required), Bilpin Fruit Bowl (weekends); Glenbernie Orchard (set times, bookings required)
• Plums              : Canoelands Orchard (FINISHED NOW)
• Strawberries   : Berrylicious Strawberries (set times, bookings required)

===January===

• Apples (late Jan): Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, open Friday to Sunday – CLOSED Australia Day long weekend); Bilpin Fruit Bowl (drop-in, open weekends from 26th Jan); Glenbernie Orchard (set times, bookings essential)
• Peaches                : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, open Friday to Sunday – CLOSED Australia Day long weekend); Glenbernie Orchard (set times, bookings essential); Bilpin Fruit Bowl (drop-in, open weekends)
• Pears                    : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, open Friday to Sunday)
• Plums                   : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, open Friday to Sunday)
• Strawberries       : Berrylicious Strawberries (set times, bookings essential)

===February===

• Apples        : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, no entry fee, Friday to Sunday); Bilpin Fruit Bowl (drop-in, entry fee, weekends); Glenbernie Orchard (bookings required)
• Peaches      : Glenbernie Orchard (bookings required); Bilpin Fruit Bowl (drop-in, entry fee, weekends)
• Pears           : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, no entry fee, Friday to Sunday)
• Plums          : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, no entry fee, Friday to Sunday)

===March===

Tomato picking season is from about mid-March

Apples             : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, no entry fee, Friday to Sunday – CLOSED 29th-31st March); TNT Produce (drop-in, $2 entry fee, weekends only from 30th March) Bilpin Fruit Bowl (drop-in, entry fee, weekends only); Glenbernie Orchard (bookings required, weekends)

Chestnuts        : Kookootonga Nut Farm (7 days 9am to 4pm), Nutwood Farm (weekends, 9am to 4pm) and Campanella Cottage (weekends, 9am to 3pm)

Eggplants        : Canoelands Orchard (weekends drop-in, weekdays bookings required)

Persimmon      : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, no entry fee, Friday to Sunday)

Plums               : Pine Crest Orchard (not currently available for picking)

Quinces           : Pine Crest Orchard (drop-in, no entry fee, Friday to Sunday)

Strawberries   : Berrylicious Strawberries (set times, bookings required – 10th March)

Tomatoes        : Canoelands Orchard (weekends drop-in, weekdays bookings required)

NOTE: Strawberries are available to be picked at Berrylicious Strawberries throughout the year when there is enough fruit to pick. They do generally open during the school holidays and bookings are required.