CLOSED FOR SEASON - Pick Your Own Strawberry Farm

*Review for 5 September 2021*

Price for entry and box of strawberries was reasonable. Pack a sunhat and arrive early because it does get very hot when picking strawberries.

Plenty of strawberries to pick and overall an enjoyable morning out.

We go there every year. The box size is a bit smaller this year but its very ripe and sweet fruits made up for it.

Fantastic place to take the kids.
Wear boots when you go Sandy track. Definitely go back again.recommend highly.friendly helpful staff.

Good experience with picking your own strawberries. But the $2 fees per person is a bit touch if you are bringing too many people.

Friendly staff at the entrance. $2 entrance and $10 per crate. Wear sand friendly shoes/wearing. We took 2 crates for 2 kids. We all loved it. Highly recommended.

Great farm friendly staff. Piece of advice when your picking go for ones with a little bit of white on them the pure red ones go off real quick. Just in case you know nothing like I did when I went to pick em

Massive area. Sometimes a bit of a walk but really good strawberries! Went last year as well as this year and will now be my go to!
Especially now my mum went to another farm which had very plain strawberries and do not compare to Bullsbrook Pick Your Own!

Would be nice to have some little scissors and wet wipes to clean the hands after, they don't provide of any more than a ride.

It is a good experience in general. The pyo place is a bit far from car park, with entrance deep covered in sand, so wear shoes that you don't mind sand in, otherwise wait for the tractor ride. The area to pick is quite big, so bring a hat and some water, maybe insect repellant for kids. Today there was not many strawberries left, you can still find good ones, but take time and not the huge size like in supermarket.

Most fruit is rotten, once you get in, they will force you to pick and hard to get refund. Very rude lady and destroy my afternoon.

$2 entry per person to pick your own strawberry for $10 a tray. Expect a short walk on loose sand to get from the entrance to the strawberry field (the distance would depend on which sections of the field is open).

Yummy strawberries.very cheap entry, no restrictions.toilets are arranged now, which were not availble earlier.

Pick your own strawberries. You may spend about half a day in this place. Fun activity and you can take the strawberries you picked for 12$ a box.

What we get from your farm through Woolworths Katherine NT.very bitter not sweet or even half ripe.

It might be fun go there with the family but I have never seen employers treat workers like that. The interview was just a ridiculous attempt to scare first day workers for the amount of daily hours and efforts they have to bear. Nothing wrong with hardworking. But it has to be done on a decent pay. Just feel sorry for all those people who work there. Be respectful, for every worker, backpacker or not.

Do not work or buy from these people.they pay staff as little as $4 dollers an hour.i worked 4 hours and wasnt even paid by the company.they treat staff like trash.they are an insult to thier country and a insult to farming.avoid at all costs.the goverment needs to do more to stop farmers like this

A really cheap way to get strawberries for days.
Take care if visiting in the heat. A good idea to wear enclosed shoes since it is quite sandy. Depending on how picky you are a box can be filled in around half an hour.

To anyone thinking about coming here to pick your own strawberries: please, don't! Behind closed doors, this place is treating his workers like slaves.
Most of them coming from Asia and with zero english knowledge, that's why you wont find many negative comments in the reviews.unfortunally they are people who don't know what their rights are, trapped in the middle of nowhere with nothing else than this job to survive.
I was there in 2013, as a foreign my self, I needed to do farm work to get a second year working-holiday visa.
One day I went to visit the place, and to get informations.
At that time the workes had to pay 70 dollars a week for rent, to sleep there.
The rooms were containers, with no windows, with 3/4 bunk beds in each container and nothing alse.
How can you ask 70 dollars a week for a bed in a container shared by 8 people?
The kitchen was a open shad outside in the fields. Witch had probably never been cleaned before, and because of all the food left over around, every surface was black and covered by insect. The toilets/showers.well, you could smell that they were toilets from 50m distance. Also containes without windows and also never been cleaned before. The showers walls where cover of a yellow/green color.
They told me there is no pay for the first 2 weeks of picking, because people have to learn first (? What do you need to learn for 2 weeks time, so that you can be good at picking strawberries?).
After the 2 weeks, the pay would have been 2,20 dollars for each tray picked.
If you have already been there, you would know how big the trays are. To get to the legal minimum pay per hour, you would have to pick 9/10 of them each hour. One each 7 min. Which is not realistic. This rhythm for the all day.
I tought it would not work out, but I was so desperate to find a farm work to extend my visa that I decided to show up some days after to start to work.
When I got there, no one was waiting for me and I couldn't find anyone able to speak good english, and asking around for a manager / boss to talk to, the other workes told me that no one was there and that if I wanted to work I simply had to take my trolley, go in the fields and start to pick.
So without any instructions, contracts or agreement I started that first day at about 6 am.
At around 16, after 10 hours of picking, when I tought the working day would be over, a supervisors took us to the next rows of strawberries and told us to keep picking.
I went to him and asked until when we were suppose to work and he said "until 18". I said I was exhausted and I left.
I showed up again the second day, still no one would let me talk to a manager, basically no one even know who I was and that I was working there or since when, how much I picked, etc. I understood that I would have never seen any money from them, as there was never going to be a written down contract, which I needed to prove my farm work to the goverment to get my visa.
Asking around at those few workers who could speak english, they all told me that the work conditions was horrible, and at the end of the month you can only get enough to pay the 210 dollars for the rent. And that they live like animals. The most of them dont have a car, so they can only rely on the other workes who have one, to buy then some food, as this place doesn't give them any way to access to food, even considering that there are no stores for many km.
The second day, when I left I decided that I was not going to go back there. I tought about reporting them but I didn't want to have issues with my futur visas processes for my future in Australia. But now I wish I did.
I read on internet that they where often investigated from the fair work, i don't know how that ended, but I am shocked that they are still open, and reading the other 1-star rewiews I can see that nothing changed.
Please, don't support this type of business, which are making money out of underpaid workes. If you wish to go to pick strowberries do it somewhere else. Please!

Went on January 2019:

A very nice experience! The strawberries picking experience is really cheap. They give you a nice clean carton box, you just fill it up and take home whatever you can pick and fill! We didn't get to see the farm in full action as it is summer. Strawberries are scarce when we went over, but we understand it's is the last week of the season already. The strawberries are really tasty though small!

I worked for this farm for a while and probably the slaving is less heavy. Payment is ridiculous they don't pay you per hour but only for a completed line (100 dollars). The average timing to complete a line is about 2 working days (16hours) for a beginner. You must work under the sun 8 or more hours. Never seen a slavery like that. If you want calculate how you can earn per hour it's about 5 dollars p/h unreal.
Please avoid announcements about this farm which pay you 18 dollars p/h are fake