Roth Family Orchard
Simply great cherries from magical Mudgee2026 CHERRY SEASON
Roth Family Orchard take pride in growing simply great cherries, morello sours cherries and apricots.
Picked at peak ripeness and sold super fresh for the best flavour.
We open for cherry picking and sales during the cherry season and take delivery runs regionally – this timing all depends on the cherries.
If planning ahead we suggest the first weeks of December for sweet cherries and late December for sour cherries.
For updates on the season, pick your own, Cherry Express runs and farm gate sales sign up to the cherry chatter for updates by email
Employment: Work Available for 2026 season
Experienced cherry picking staff are encouraged to contact us regarding work with our small family team during cherry season. Please use the contact page for more information.
KIRSEBÆR SOVS Danish cherry sauce
A few people have asked me for this recipe. Any Dane knows it well as the traditional Danish Christmas dessert is this cherry sauce served over a rice and almond and cream pudding (risalamande). There's one whole almond in the pudding and whoever is lucky enough to...
Pick your own cherry season bookings for 2026 will open mid November
Spring 2026 The orchard is bursting to life. Every season it amazes me how quickly the trees move from dormant, bare branches to the burst of blossom and then leaf. It is such a dramatic, magical change that nature creates each spring. We have early fruit set in...
ABC TV 7:30pm Friday 2 July
ABC TV is beaming our orchard right to your living room. Filmed in the peak of our cherry season last December, snippets from our orchard are part of a new show Movin' to the country
Winter in the orchard
There's no fruit to pick right now. Our trees stand graceful with a sculptural beauty in their leafless winter dormancy. Pruned and fed they are saving resources and soaking in the winter chill as they get ready to burst into blossom in spring for fruit in summer. ...
Autumn gold
My little cover crop is coming up beautifully. We cultivated and planted every second row through the orchard, trying to remove and outcompete the weedy, clumpy paspalum grass and bring some life and organic matter back into the soils. The barley has sprinted away...