rayner's stonefruit orchard

We went there on a Friday afternoon and we thought we'll grab a quick bite before the tour but the nice staff recommended that we should go on the tour with empty stomachs and he couldn't be more right!!!!We had a feast from the start of the tour until the end with at least 10 types of stone fruits and all of them fabulous! Len was so kind to help to pick the best fruits from the trees and is very knowledgable on the topic of fruits and more. The fruits are huge,juicy and can't be any fresher... Len has also introduced to us the red flesh nectarine which we haven't seen before. The one hour past too quickly but we were so full and pleased with our harvest! I know we'll be back here very soon!

My first time here at Rayner's Stonefruit.Managed to eat plum, peach and others fruits here including special handmade Peach Ice Cream.Its really worth and will come back again...for more, can read at my bloghttp://www.mrjocko.com/2015/02/ladang-buahan-rayner-stone-fruits.htmlThanks

A very fun trip. Lens brought us on a tour on the orchard, with fruit tasting. Sharing with us how to pick fruits. The peaches, apricot, plums are really awesome!Very lovely environment. They have fruits cater for different seasons.

My mother and I had a tour last week and loved it!The tour operator was a family member of the orchard and told us all about the history and could answer any questions we had.He even helped out with any questions we had about growing fruit trees at home - he certainly knew his stuff.The fruit itself tasted amazing and the picking experience was great !Going to go again later in the year for a blossom tour.

Excellent. Fantastic. Great Experience. Are all responses we have had from the 1000's of other happy visitors who have come to experience our farm. (our visitors book in the cafe has hundreds of similar reviews.) Unlike other u pick farms, we offer several hundred varieties of fruit to try, and explain the specifics of each variety during the tour. We try to be more than just a 'point and pick' farm, offering our years of knowledge and experience during the tour. Having a guide while picking, also ensures you pointed to the best and tastiest fruit. If its just cheap bulk fruit you are after, we do offer great deals on shed door sales.

We stopped to purchase some stone fruit and ended up with a lovely morning tea made fresh on the premises, good coffee and lots of preserved fruit.

It was a sunny late morning when we reached Rayners.The Farmer, Len took us for a ride in his tractor round his large Orchard. he told us that their were more than 350 varietaries of fruits likes nectarines, apricots, peaches, plums, kiwis, pomegranates, guava, etc...Along the way, we sampled peaches right from the trees. They were half-ripped but very fresh and juicy. We picked some peaches along the way into the cases given to us. Each case of peaches just costs AUD5.00. It was worth the prices with its freshness.The tour lasted for about an hour.With the next group of tourists waiting, we bought some dried fruits at the Peach Cafe.The children loved the tour very much.10/11/2014

Great to hear you have been enjoying our farm and tractor tours for a few seasons now Martin! You visited us when our stonefruit season had only just begun, so you will have to pop in towards the end of Summer to taste some of our new fruits at the farm . With over 360 varieties of fruit growing here now, nearly every week of the year we will have a new fruit ripe and ready for tasting! Stone fruit varieties in season till May, with new varieties of plums and peaches available for tasting well into Autumn!

The apricots tasted like the ones we used to grow in the backyard. During the heatwave, they 5 kg boxes of nectarines and peaches for $10 a box! fresh tasty fruit worth a visit if you are in the area

Thanks for your feedback on our cafe and shop - we do have our own chef on site and we use our own produce and other local Yarra Valley produce in our meals, therefore the price of our gourmet pies and other meals is within range with other meals served in this area. The best time to get the freshest, juiciest taste from our stone fruit is during the peak stone fruit season, December - February, we have many comments both from customers visiting our shop to those that venture out on our tractor tours, as to how our fruit reminds them of the fruit they used to eat as a child. If your fruit selection was not to the standard you were anticipating, please let us know of this experience on your next visit and we will be happy to have you taste some of our fruit in season before any purchase. You do need to come along on our tractor tours to reap the full experience, as many of our customers have walked away extremely happy, and telling us it was well worth the cost of the ride. Please come along on a tour next time so you can experience what many others have, and keep coming back for another go next season! We now have fruit tasting tractor tours running all year, with the fruit available for tasting changing every 2 - 3 weeks!

Visited in time for the tractor ride which was informative and tasted samples offered and ate what I liked on the tour. So delicious, fresh and juicy I picked more to bring home which was very reasonable priced considering the real flavour and the mixed varieties are like nothing you have every tasted before. I'll be back and will pick some up at the convenient local markets I get to sometimes. A great few hours spent on a working orchard. Too full today to eat at the café but that will be on my list at my next visit. Len will have some fruit trees in next week so I can't wait to get some mixed varieties to plant for myself. They keep theirs quite small so I think I should be able to manage mine the same. Can't wait to pick fruit from my very own trees. A great day out and a great place to take kids and visitors.

We apologise for the misunderstanding in this instance - we offer the U Pick option of any fruit you like at all the stops made for tastings around the orchard and any fruit that is picked is at $5 a kilo. We have been advised that this is a reasonably fair price as some of the fruit out in the orchard sells for this price, yet some can sell for as much as $35 a kilo, and you are able to pick as much fruit as you like during the tour. We will make sure all our staff in the cafe know to inform anyone catching the tractor tours that the U Pick Option is an additional cost of $5 per kilo. Thanks for your feedback .

We were offered a visit to a fruit orchard as part of our visit to Melbourne. I thought, why not. Boy, did we have fun. The owner and tractor driver is a bit eccentric in a positive way. We toured the or hard by tractor and got off about 10 times to sample fruit. Learned a lot about stone fruit and sampled many to many fruit. Not to be missed. Highly recommended

We only visited this attraction and went on the tour, so I can't give any comments on the shope or the cafe.The tour of the orchard was rather interesting, though. It was conducted by Len. On reflection it was more about why they were engaged in tourism (It's hard to make money selling fruit to supermarkets). It was about the structural changes to Australian agriculture (there was once 300 fruit growers in the district and now there are 50). It was also about the importance of family on a farm. I didn't learn much about the fruit. I tasted a lot. Really as much as you could eat. Some of it was interesting. Some of the varieties were quite unusual. The wagon used for the tour was a little unsafe for children sitting in the front seat, but fine for those in other rows.If you approach this as a tour that is run by a farmer, not by a trained tour-guide, you should find much to enjoy in it.

Love all the chutneys and things in the shop to buy. Foccacias, beautiful; and superb stone fruits in season. Looking forward to other things being grown also, during the year. Love it. Plus, if they are not too busy, Heather especially, comes to say Goodbye. I love that touch! Well worth going there every so often and a good place for kids to learn about fruits and where they grow.