Higham Blueberries

Higham Blueberries has been growing and selling blueberries at Kinglake Central for more than 30 years, making it one of the district's longest-running u-pick farms. The berries are grown without pesticides on Extons Road in the cool hills an hour north-east of Melbourne, and picking here feels like visiting a farming family rather than a tourist attraction.

What You Can Pick

• Blueberries - January and February, by appointment

Activities

• Frozen fruit packs available year-round direct from the farm
• Blueberry pies and fruit at the Lancefield and District Farmers Market stall

Good to Know

Picking is by phone appointment only: call ahead to book a time and check how the fruit is ripening before you drive up. Entry fees and per-kg prices are set each season, so ask when you book. Because visits are scheduled, the rows never feel crowded, which makes for easy, unhurried picking with kids, and the fruit is never stripped bare by a weekend rush. Frozen blueberries from previous pickings are usually available at the farm gate year-round, and the blueberry pies sold through the Lancefield market stall have their own local following.

Pro tip: combine your visit with the Kinglake National Park lookouts; the farm sits right in the middle of the ranges.