Oil Harvest 2025 – April 25-26
Thanks to all of you who joined the olive harvest this year. We came away with 713kg of olives with a 16% oil content and returned from the York oil press with 125L of beautiful oil. We’ll be bottling it in early June. Pickers will be notified first and bring your clean bottles for refilling.
Moringa harvest & curry cookup – April 6, 2025
On Sunday April 6th 10:30-12:30 we’ll hold a Moringa tree harvest combined with a Moringa curry cook-up. As we pick the pods/drumstick and prune the foliage, a food crew will prepare curries utilising some of the moringa harvest. We’ll aim to eat around midday. Bring secateurs for pruning.
We’re turning 10!
Our 11th AGM from 3pm and then we celebrate 10 years from 4pm. Everyone welcome.
Saturday Sep 14th: Visit the Orchard and other Freo Gardens
We are lucky in Freo – we have a range of community gardens from large market gardens, a small garden hidden behind a café, gardens selling seedlings to orchards . . . all with passionate and knowledgeable people involved. There will be something to inspire everyone.
So visit your local garden, a few you are interested in or make a day of it and visit them all!
Annie Street Garden on Annie Street (Winterfold Primary School), Beaconsfield will be open from 8am – 10am
North Freo Social Farm at 10 Thompson Rd, North Fremantle will be open from 8.30 – 12 with tours at 9, 10 and 11am
APACE Community Garden at 1 Johannah St, North Fremantle will be open from 9am – 1pm
East Freo Farm behind Nine Seeds Cafe at 121 Marmion St, Fremantle will be open from 9am – 1pm
Hilton Harvest at Rennie Cres N, Hilton will be open from 9am – 12noon
White Gum Valley Orchard at 96 Samson St, WGV (next door to Hazel Orme Kindergarten) will be open from 1.00pm – 2.30pm
Winter Warmer gathering -Sunday June 23rd 4:30pm
We’re giving the Winter Solstice a new look this year and taking a break on the lantern parade. In the orchard we’ll be putting on a low key gathering to enjoy this time of year and include some orchard tlc. Come on down and have a cuppa around the fire.
Pre-Winter Busy Bee -Sunday May 19th 2:30 -4pm
We’re hoping winter rains will be on their way soon so we’re getting the orchard ready with a few tree and shrub plantings and a several other jobs onsite. Come and join us.
Our Harvest is Over! Back to Orchard for a pre-winter busy bee
On Monday May 6th we’ll have a tree care session 8:30-9:30am
On Sunday May 19th 2:30-4pm we’ll run a busy bee planting and harvesting the last summer crops.
2024 Olive Harvest is on 20/21 April – Register to join a harvest time
Register here in Eventbrite :https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2024-community-olive-harvest-saturday-verge-pick-sunday-in-booyeembara-tickets-864415920287?aff=oddtdtcreator
Join the 2024 Community Olive Harvest:
- Saturday 20/4- choose the morning harvest team or mid afternoon harvest mob to harvest olives from the verges of White Gum Valley
- Sunday morning 21/4 in Booyeembara Park’s Olive Grove (located on Montreal Street near Public Golf Course ), between 9:00am – 12.30pm. Then join a celebratory long-table lunch in the grove (byo lunch or put in $10 for pizza) with live music.
- Alternatively you can harvest anytime over the weekend at a time / place of your choosing.
By registering we can communicate further details closer to the date.
Busy bee & Social Sundowner – Sunday March 10, 2024
Join our late summer busy bee followed by a sundowner
Busy Bee Sunday Mar 10th. 3:30pm- 5pm
Sundowner 5 – 6:30pm
A very busy busy-bee with loads of jobs to tackle like oiling timber structures, feeding trees and de-weeding our weedy corner.
Everyone is welcome!