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WA Road Trip: Apple Picking at Spring Valley Orchard

We chanced upon this orchard while researching for our Perth trip in May 2014. Coincidentally, May is the apple harvesting season in Perth and Spring Valley Orchard offers apple picking tours for $10 per person (you get to take 1 kg of apples home with that price). We emailed Diana who owns the orchard and informed her about our date and time of arrival. She gave us very precise directions as the entrance is not easy to find and the google maps address is incorrect. The place is just after Donnybrook if you are driving from the direction of Perth. Our tour began with the Diana and her niece letting us feed some apples to the farm horses. We were shown the process to polish and sort apples and their vegetables and herbs garden. Of course the highlight of the tour was the apple trees themselves. The farm is entirely organic and comprises of both Pink Ladys and Granny Smiths. It was a great experience plucking the fresh apples and placing them into our bags. At the end of the tour which lasted for an hour, we had 9 kg of apples! As there were five of us, 5 kg of apples are complimentary and we paid $20 AUD for the remaining 4 kg and a gorgeous pumpkin.

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