Fords Farm

Fords Farm is a great place to pick mandarins, oranges, lemons and cumquats. Entry is $5 per car. I went to pick mandarins and there were two types satsuma and imperial. Both mandarins were delicious and it was so much fun picking the fruit myself. Totally suggest byo clippers.

Very nice family farm to out and play in a sunny winter. My kids enjoyed the sheep feeding. Best days to go there in early week of june. Entrance is $5 per car and $2 a kilo of mandarins.

Approximate cost: $18

The best fruit in the district especially the cumquats & Satsuma's. Home made cumquat marmalade is the best you will ever find anywhere. The farm is owned & run by two extremely hard working girls.

Part of the Farm Gate Trail. We booked in as a group of 25. Group bookings are about the only way to get into this place other than an open day. Right now there are citrus in great supply, imperial variety and navals and then this places opens up to a gourmets delight of goods. Cheeses are in a bit of short supply but try some of the jams and you will die for them especially if they are made without the mass sugar input. I suppose the whole day or really the two hours spent here opened my eyes to a part of sydney that really has kept fresh as best and offers a delightful journey of learning from the people who know food from the ground up. I well recommend you forming a group and going on the Hawkesbury Farm Gate Trail because I could not put on 10 pages the goods available and the deight of smelling fruit and veg as it comes out of the ground or off the tree and the way is makes your mouth water with fresh fragrances. The cost is as it would be in your green grocer for fresh goods but you know how old they are. Pickles jams and many other gourmet foods are more expensive than the shop variety but who would not pay for the love that has gone into them?