Take pleasure in a candy summer time at Rocky Creek Farm (previously generally known as Sunny Ridge Strawberry Farm) on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia’s largest strawberry producer.
Reopening every day from Saturday 2 November 2024, this family-friendly vacation spot is positioned in Important Ridge/Purple Hill, solely 75 minutes from Melbourne.
Strawberry Season Opening
Rejoice the opening weekend of strawberry season at Rocky Creek Strawberry Farm! On November 2nd and third 2024, take pleasure in family-friendly actions together with face portray, wildlife adventures, and balloon artistry. Expertise the enjoyment of selecting contemporary strawberries whereas having fun with scrumptious treats in a picturesque farm setting.
Rocky Creek Strawberry Farm Melbourne
Rocky Creek Farm, as soon as generally known as Sunny Ridge Strawberry Farm, presents a enjoyable u-pick strawberry expertise. You too can purchase seasonal berries, fruit, veg, and gourmand merchandise. Or, sit down on the cafe and luxuriate in some scrumptious strawberry desserts.
The U-pick expertise is extra for enjoyable than for the precise high quality of the fruit, because the containers you can purchase from the store are significantly better when it comes to uniformity of color and measurement. And when you have a foul again all that crouching and bending is just not ideally suited (not like cherry-picking which is extra upright).
However for teenagers 3 and underneath it’s an ideal exercise as they will decide without spending a dime with any grownup ($9) and the 500g grownup’s punnet takes about 15-20 minutes to fill so that you’ll be completed earlier than children get bored.
Kids 4+ years pay $4 and obtain a 250g punnet to fill. Notice you possibly can’t eat whilst you decide as they need you to scrub the strawberries earlier than consumption.
After your strawberry selecting work take a look at the dessert cafe, which has out of doors picnic benches or there’s somewhat little bit of (air-conditioned) seating on the within. The cafe presents a lot of strawberry-based gadgets, together with a scrumptious strawberry ice cream which is clearly handmade with a lot of strawberry pips and a vibrant pink color.
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The menu presents notably spectacular strawberry ice cream sundaes and I battle to search out one which isn’t huge. I determine on a strawberry tough with strawberry and coconut ice cream, contemporary strawberries, meringue crunch, chocolate flakes and crushed nuts .
It’s superbly offered and excellent for a scorching day. If you happen to determine to order their well-known Strawberry Temptation I like to recommend sharing with two folks.
Rocky Creek Farm (previously generally known as Sunny Ridge Strawberry Farm) is among the must-do areas to go to with children within the Mornington Peninsula.
Strawberry selecting is enjoyable for a short while and straightforward for little children to do and the dessert cafe has tons on the menu for candy tooths. Notice that the strawberry farm could be extremely busy, particularly throughout the summer time holidays. Throughout peak intervals their automotive park might be full so you have to to park by the principle street.
For extra fruit-picking adventures with children, attempt berry selecting at Tuckerberry Hill, cherry-picking at Cherryhill Orchards even a fruit tasting tractor tour at Rayner’s Orchard.