Edible Forest

Edible Forest at Dixons Creek is Victoria's largest food forest, with more than 300 edible and medicinal plant species growing across the hillside at Yarra Valley Estate. Featured on ABC's Gardening Australia, it offers a different kind of picking day: a one-hour guided Tour, Taste and Educate walk where you pick and taste whatever is ripe as you go.

What You Can Pick

• Seasonal fruit, berries and edible plants - whatever the forest is offering, picked and tasted with your guide as part of the tour

Activities

• Guided food forest tours through 300+ species
• On-site nursery selling the plants you taste
• Picnic hampers available with 48 hours notice

Good to Know

Tours are $27.50 for adults, $5 for children 4-6 and free under 4 (children 7+ pay adult price; groups of 10+ $22 each), with picking and tasting included in the price rather than paid by weight. Bookings are essential; winter tours run limited days with fewer fruit tastings. Paths suit wheelchairs and prams. The nursery is stocked with many of the same fruit trees, berries and herbs you taste on the walk, so a tour often ends with a boot full of plants for the home garden.

Pro tip: book a late-summer tour, when the widest spread of the forest is fruiting at once.