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A young woman and an older man in sun hats pick blueberries into buckets in soft morning light.

Fruit picking jobs in Australia: ground, bush, tree or vine, and the one to start on

Fruit picking jobs in Australia compared: ground crops, berries, tree fruit and vines, the work each asks of you, how pay works and which suits a beginner.

21 October 2026 · 10 min readRead the article

Two seasonal workers review a notebook beside a dusty ute in a sunlit Tasmanian apple orchard.

Harvest planning

Fruit picking seasons in Australia: how to chain two or three crops into a working year

Fruit picking seasons in Australia by state: typical crop windows, how to chain mangoes, cherries, apples and pruning into a year, and count your 88 days.

20 October 2026 · 10 min readRead the article