Canoelands Orchard
Highlights
- Savour seasonal fruits like nectarines and peaches during the major harvest from mid-October to late December.
- Explore the orchard on a tractor ride, enjoying the fresh air and scenic views just an hour from Sydney.
- Engage with farm life through animal petting and feeding, perfect for families and kids of all ages.
- Discover local produce at the boutique shop, featuring self-produced honey, jams, and sauces crafted from the orchard's bounty.
Canoelands Orchard, located just one hour from Sydney’s centre, is a seasonal fruit-picking orchard offering a variety of experiences. Visitors can enjoy fruit picking, tractor rides, animal petting and feeding, a café, a picnic area, and a small playground.
The orchard provides tours that include bee education and presentations suitable for all ages, technical farm tours, excursions, functions, kids’ parties, high tea, Devonshire tea, Busy Bee workshops, farmer-for-a-day experiences, seniors discounts, orchard picnics, grazing boxes, sandwich boxes, dessert boxes, and more.
The major harvest season at Canoelands Orchard spans from mid-October to late December, featuring nectarines, peaches, plums, blueberries, and strawberries. Additionally, the orchard grows apples, pomegranates, tomatoes, eggplants, persimmons, figs, tamarillos, feijoas, mandarins, oranges, lemons, limes, and finger limes, ensuring there is something to pick most of the year.
Canoelands Orchard also boasts a charming boutique shop that sells highly rated, self-produced Pa’s Honey, along with various jams, sauces, and chutneys made from their own produce.
It is a fantastic destination for families, groups, and people of all ages.
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Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Employs people with disabilities.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Physical – High support needs
Caters for people with high support needs who travel with a support person.
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