Rayner's Orchard
Rayner's Orchard
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9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Monday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Rayner's Orchard is a boutique orchard that grows over 450 varieties of fruit located in Melbourne's Yarra Valley. Open 9am to 4pm, 7 days per week (closed Christmas Day) Take a guided orchard tractor fruit tasting tour with farmer Len Rayner around the environmentally sustainable orchard, and compare the fantastic flavours of up to 8 varieties of fresh tree ripened fruit. If you wish you can pick your own fruit have a drive of the Cherry picker, to get a bird's eye view of the farm! The Peach Cafe serves drinks, snacks and lunches year round – BBQ lunch deal available for groups of 10 or more. Our shop has a large range of homemade fruit and fruit products. Fruit Bottling Workshops are also run daily learn how to bottle your own fruit the traditional way and take home some bottled fruit that you prepared and cooked yourself (booking required) A function room is available for hire and catering can be provided for events
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- Our Wanderings | E&JUnited Kingdom99 contributionsFun fruit picking experience in the heart of Yarra ValleyWe visited the orchard as part of our day out to the Yarra Valley. The tractor tour pricing includes an hour long tour with all you can eat fruit during the tour. It was a fun way to explore new subtypes of nectarines, plums and peaches and the blood plum was our favourite! The tour itself is a little on the expensive side so I would recommend you make the most of the all you can eat part. We finished the tour with our bellies full of fruit and anything you want to take home is weighed at the end.Visited January 2024Travelled as a coupleWritten 18 January 2024
- Vincent TMacau, China5 contributionsOne of the best experience in MelbourneWe had a delightful visit to Rayner's Orchard in June, and it exceeded all our expectations. Our guide, Will, was incredibly knowledgeable and friendly, making the tour both educational and enjoyable. We especially loved having Ranger, the orchard dog, tag along with our group. Ranger’s presence added a special charm to the experience. The orchards were beautifully maintained, and the variety of fruits available was impressive. We highly recommend a visit to Rayner's Orchard for a fun and memorable day out. Thank you, Will and Ranger, for an unforgettable experience!Visited June 2024Travelled with familyWritten 17 June 2024
- Clara T1 contributionAbsolutely recommend!It was a wonderful experience for our taste buds. Our guide Claudine was very knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. We tasted a lot of citrus fruits and could eat as much as we wanted. Though it wasn’t persimmon or apple season, Claudine was really kind to offer us those that they harvested earlier. We tasted more than 8 fruits and I was blown away by the sweet lemon and the different variety of oranges. Our family learnt a lot, each of us has a different favourite fruit of the day and the whole experience was made better with Ranger and Chief. Would absolutely recommend this to all fruit lovers. We will be back for the stone fruit season!Visited July 2024Travelled with familyWritten 30 June 2024
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AstroFamily20
Brisbane, Australia35 contributions
Jan 2020 • Family
Took a drive to the orchard after picking up a brochure and it was such a wonderful surprise. Did the tractor tour. You can eat as much fruit while on the tour as you want so go with an empty stomach. (Better before lunch). Got to taste the most amazing sweetest nectarines, peaches and apricots I have ever had. Wish this place was closer to home so I could visit more often. You can pick as much fruit as you want to take home and pay $5kg when you are finished.
Written 4 January 2020
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dyhx
Singapore6,618 contributions
May 2022 • Family
They are actually closed for the season already but because of our group size, they agreed to take our booking, so we essentially had an exclusive private tour for 10 of us, for a fruit tasting cum U-Pick tractor tour where all fruits you pick to bring home is charged at $6 per kg, regardless what fruit. And they've got a huge variety here, the most I've seen at any fruit picking orchard we've been to ever. Imagine despite this being the end of the harvest season, we still managed to try 8-9 different varieties. Limes alone, we tried 4 different types, including the lemonade lime and finger lime.
They also do quite abit of hybrid fruits here - the pineapple guava, strawberry guava and lemon guava. Pretty interesting flavours. I tried the Chinese Quince for the first time and no thanks. But I did have an amazing experience with Kumquat.
Great fun here and the kids surely had fun plucking away too.
They also do quite abit of hybrid fruits here - the pineapple guava, strawberry guava and lemon guava. Pretty interesting flavours. I tried the Chinese Quince for the first time and no thanks. But I did have an amazing experience with Kumquat.
Great fun here and the kids surely had fun plucking away too.
Written 19 May 2022
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Our Wanderings | E&J
United Kingdom99 contributions
Jan 2024 • Couples
We visited the orchard as part of our day out to the Yarra Valley. The tractor tour pricing includes an hour long tour with all you can eat fruit during the tour. It was a fun way to explore new subtypes of nectarines, plums and peaches and the blood plum was our favourite! The tour itself is a little on the expensive side so I would recommend you make the most of the all you can eat part. We finished the tour with our bellies full of fruit and anything you want to take home is weighed at the end.
Written 18 January 2024
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July 2023 • Family
Had a horrible experience at this place. Paid over $300 for my son and I to do a tour and learn to bottle fruit, along with gift shop purchases. My son who has been suffering from mental health issues for the past year, was celebrating his birthday with a trip to this venue. He was enjoying himself, chatting and laughing with other people on the tour about the sour taste of the finger limes. He stated that you could swallow the tiny balls whole to avoid the sourness. The owner Len completely turned on him and utterly abused him in front of everyone and told him he was an idiot and was stupid then proceeded to ignore us. I can not believe someone could be such an a hole to treat any paying customer , let alone a child like this! He is a disgusting human being. The wife was nice, but we paid $206 for a fruit bottling session for the 2 of us, which stated on their site that we could choose to bottle a variety of fruits and that our fee covered 5 bottled fruits each. They had only 4 fruits and we got only 6 small bottles, not 10. Basically we cut up 4 pears, 2 tomatoes and some pineapple and grabbed a handful of frozen cherries and put them in the jars. She poured in some syrup and cooked them in an urn for 8 minutes -$206 to cut up fruit and put them in a jar… however it was Len and his revolting behaviour that absolutely spoilt my son’s birthday and his birthday holiday. His remarks and behaviour were absolutely uncalled for and I am so incredibly angry at paying so much money, to walk away from this place feeling guttered and upset for myself and my son for having had to endure such revolting abuse, being ignored and to a much lesser extent not in any way getting our monies worth.
Written 22 July 2023
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Frans1803
Sydney7 contributions
Mar 2020
Staff were very friendly and helpful. I was offered in-store an organic apple to taste. They are the sweetest and freshest I've tasted. There was a large range of jams, sauces and chutney. I tasted one and purchased a jar. There was a lot of well priced stone fruit for sale. They also sell large fruit pies. Well worth my time there.
Written 18 March 2020
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Vincent T
Macau, China5 contributions
June 2024 • Family
We had a delightful visit to Rayner's Orchard in June, and it exceeded all our expectations. Our guide, Will, was incredibly knowledgeable and friendly, making the tour both educational and enjoyable. We especially loved having Ranger, the orchard dog, tag along with our group. Ranger’s presence added a special charm to the experience. The orchards were beautifully maintained, and the variety of fruits available was impressive. We highly recommend a visit to Rayner's Orchard for a fun and memorable day out. Thank you, Will and Ranger, for an unforgettable experience!
Written 17 June 2024
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Clara T
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July 2024 • Family
It was a wonderful experience for our taste buds. Our guide Claudine was very knowledgeable, friendly and helpful.
We tasted a lot of citrus fruits and could eat as much as we wanted. Though it wasn’t persimmon or apple season, Claudine was really kind to offer us those that they harvested earlier.
We tasted more than 8 fruits and I was blown away by the sweet lemon and the different variety of oranges. Our family learnt a lot, each of us has a different favourite fruit of the day and the whole experience was made better with Ranger and Chief.
Would absolutely recommend this to all fruit lovers. We will be back for the stone fruit season!
We tasted a lot of citrus fruits and could eat as much as we wanted. Though it wasn’t persimmon or apple season, Claudine was really kind to offer us those that they harvested earlier.
We tasted more than 8 fruits and I was blown away by the sweet lemon and the different variety of oranges. Our family learnt a lot, each of us has a different favourite fruit of the day and the whole experience was made better with Ranger and Chief.
Would absolutely recommend this to all fruit lovers. We will be back for the stone fruit season!
Written 1 July 2024
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Bryan R
Greater Melbourne, Australia4 contributions
May 2021 • Couples
We visited Raynor’s Orchard after reading previous reviews. We had a light lunch followed by scones, jam and cream. It was so delicious that we bought some of the jam to take home. We noticed they also did tractor tours if the farm. The tour was hosted by Cam Rayner who runs the farm with his family. The tour was an absolute highlight if the day. 1 hour of fruit tasting, knowledge absorbing and lots of laughs. Thank you Cam. And thank you to the friendly staff in the shop. Bryan and Jenny
Written 24 May 2021
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A P
Melbourne, Australia1 contribution
Jan 2013 • Family
We were really looking forward to our family outing to Rayner’s Fruit Orchard.
The thought of travelling around on a tractor and sampling sweet stone fruits in a sunny orchard excited us, and we had planned this and looked forward to this for weeks.
Unfortunately, our day was ruined by the attitude and behaviour of the manager, Len.
We’d come with the reasonable expectation of picking our own fruit. My son is four years old, a lover of fruit, on his first visit to an orchard, and wasn’t to know that he shouldn’t pick fruit before checking with a grown-up. He was yelled at by the manager for wasting an unripe piece of fruit. This upset him at the time, and still upsets him. Some advice, let a parent choose when and how to discipline their own child, most parents don’t take too kindly to a stranger stepping in, unasked. Some may not have the patience and tolerance that we exhibited.
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I explained that my son wasn’t to know, and the manager said that in fact it was my wife’s fault for not intervening. This was said in front of the whole tour group. I thought he was joking. I waited for the punch line. There wasn’t one. He was serious. Luckily my wife quickly remonstrated, because I was too shocked to say anything.
So far he had managed to intimidate and upset my four year old child, and publicly insult my wife. This before the tractor had started up!
On we went. The fruit was unremarkable. The first piece we ate was a nectarine, which was rather nice, but the rest of the fruit was nothing to write home about. It wasn’t 100% clear at the time, but be warned, any fruit you pick on the tour costs you, apart from the free tastings, of which there were many.
At the end of the tour was an ice cream tasting. Don’t expect a sample greater than a level teaspoon. My wife went back to ask for a second sample, this was rejected by the manager, as he said he was still sore that my son had wasted a piece of fruit.
In a state of shock and disbelief, we left.
If he doesn’t want to be in the tourist business he should get out of it, rather than insulting and intimidating his paying customers. It’s not about the fruit, it’s about creating an experience, so people talk about it, and you get more customers. Decide whether you want to run a farm or a tourist business.
The cafe was fly-blown, hot and dirty. The service was atrocious.
Our rating: Not worth the $58, I can get insulted for free elsewhere.
The thought of travelling around on a tractor and sampling sweet stone fruits in a sunny orchard excited us, and we had planned this and looked forward to this for weeks.
Unfortunately, our day was ruined by the attitude and behaviour of the manager, Len.
We’d come with the reasonable expectation of picking our own fruit. My son is four years old, a lover of fruit, on his first visit to an orchard, and wasn’t to know that he shouldn’t pick fruit before checking with a grown-up. He was yelled at by the manager for wasting an unripe piece of fruit. This upset him at the time, and still upsets him. Some advice, let a parent choose when and how to discipline their own child, most parents don’t take too kindly to a stranger stepping in, unasked. Some may not have the patience and tolerance that we exhibited.
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I explained that my son wasn’t to know, and the manager said that in fact it was my wife’s fault for not intervening. This was said in front of the whole tour group. I thought he was joking. I waited for the punch line. There wasn’t one. He was serious. Luckily my wife quickly remonstrated, because I was too shocked to say anything.
So far he had managed to intimidate and upset my four year old child, and publicly insult my wife. This before the tractor had started up!
On we went. The fruit was unremarkable. The first piece we ate was a nectarine, which was rather nice, but the rest of the fruit was nothing to write home about. It wasn’t 100% clear at the time, but be warned, any fruit you pick on the tour costs you, apart from the free tastings, of which there were many.
At the end of the tour was an ice cream tasting. Don’t expect a sample greater than a level teaspoon. My wife went back to ask for a second sample, this was rejected by the manager, as he said he was still sore that my son had wasted a piece of fruit.
In a state of shock and disbelief, we left.
If he doesn’t want to be in the tourist business he should get out of it, rather than insulting and intimidating his paying customers. It’s not about the fruit, it’s about creating an experience, so people talk about it, and you get more customers. Decide whether you want to run a farm or a tourist business.
The cafe was fly-blown, hot and dirty. The service was atrocious.
Our rating: Not worth the $58, I can get insulted for free elsewhere.
Written 4 February 2013
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Your kid was smashing fruit off a tree with a stick while the mum watches and encourages it.
I have waited 6 years for fruit from this variety and there was very little fruit as it was. The fruit is my wages for a years work no wonder I lost my temper and was rude. We are happy to accept criticism but outrite lies are not an acceptable response
Written 10 December 2013
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Lil2007
Singapore7 contributions
June 2016 • Friends
We visited the Orchard in June which was winter. Almost all the trees were bare - no fruits, no leaves -except for citrus trees. When we saw 2 pears "hanging" from a branch we were excited. But when one pear was touched , it fell to the ground. We informed the guide of this and he picked it up and hung it up again, saying that it had been put there to give us and idea of how it would appear in season. We felt foolish to have been taken in by this. Although seated near the narrator, we could not make out what he said so a lot of the narration was lost on us. We had looked forward to fruit tasting , fruit picking and fruit buying. Yes we did taste a few fruits eg an apple, a fejoia , a pear . Each was shared among 3 or 4 people but they were not in season. Some were available for purchase but you wouldn't buy them if you saw them in the supermarket! Only the limes and lemons were for the picking. We gave this a miss as the ground was wet and muddy and we had no use for them. I think the $25 we paid per person is way too exorbitant for the experience we received. I feel that the Orchard should not conduct such tours in winter or else, perhaps, reduce its charges.
Written 27 June 2016
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hi i am in melbourne and wish to visit you .. what fruits arecthrre in this season .. also it on the way to yarra valley
Written 15 May 2018
You can find a list of fruits in season on the website here. It's technically not Winter yet but I think you will find some winter fruits already now.
It's about 20-30mins from the main Yarra Valley area I think. It's not too far though. Every time I went there, I was staying around Yarra Valley areas.
Written 15 May 2018
Is it approximate to any winery? Also is it more tiring to do Tractor or Foot it to a specific Fruit picking location?
Written 24 January 2017
G'day yes there are quite a few wineries close by . The only way you can do the fruit tasting adventure is on the tractor we have found most people are unable to walk the distance. No need to book just wander in when it suits, come hungry as there are a lot of varieties to pick and taste.
Written 24 January 2017
May I know what to expect if u visit in June ? Do I need to Prebook the tractor ride ?
Written 16 January 2017
By June we will have some of our Winter fruits ready for sampling, and still plenty of our Autumn fruit at the end of their season. Some of the fruits we are likely to have include Kiwi fruit, Persimmon, guava, pepino, tamarillo, inca berries, dutch medlar and a large range of citrus - lemons, limes, oranges, mandarins, grapefruit, lemonades & more. Fruit Tasting Tractor Tours run all day on demand between 9am - 4pm, no need to book for small groups less than 15 people.
Written 16 January 2017
Raj M
Victoria Park, Australia
What picking to expect during January end? And what other activities can be expected at what cost
Written 15 January 2017
I'd expect there would be the typical summer fruits, the stone fruits like plum, peaches as well as tomatoes. I 'm not sure what berries they have but I know they have berries. I went during winter and there was a goodly amount so I'd imaging summer they'd be more variety. Drop them an email. I did the tractor ride and did the pick as much fruit as you like thing, I think it was $30, and $5 a kilo for fruit you want to take home.
The tractor ride was great. There's bottling classes available, don't know how often they run but there about $90 which includes 5 jars of fruit if I remember. They also have how to prune your fruit tree classes, but that all I know about them.
They also have a cafe.
Written 15 January 2017
What to expect when we visit Raynes Orchard in mid September ?
Written 8 August 2016
Well for sure the blossoms would look beautiful in full flower. They have blossom tours even. I'm not sure about which fruit would be ready to pick though, Kiwi is on the vine til then they said. You can also have a go on the cherry picker so you'd see an amazing view not just of the blossoms but the surrounding hills which is rather breathtaking. most websites have a contact us section so you can email them I'd say..
Written 8 August 2016
yes, i would like to know the admission fee per pax please? TQ and with that, what kind of tours provided? TQ
Written 19 February 2016
No admission, the tractor tour is $25, well worth it,
Written 8 August 2016
Hi
I am planning to visit the orchard tomorrow.
What kinds of fruits are available for picking? Any admission charges.
Thanks
Written 29 June 2015
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