In the spirit of sharing recipes from other parts of the world and coming together over food, the Orchard is putting on its first cooking demo. Orchard member Yasas Botenne is sharing a Sri Lankan curry recipe, while Steph uses the sun to cook fragrant rice. Enjoy the results. $5 entry (kids <$12 free) Register your place: wgvorchard@gmail.com
All are welcome to attend a tree care session on Monday 8:30-9:30am. We’ll be tackling weeds, watering and mulching trees. Bring gloves, water and any tools you think would be handy.
Our committee has been busy sourcing high-quality pre-loved shirts, while our Treasurer Mike has been honing his skills at screen-printing with our fabulous logo. Kids and adults sizes. The shirt rack will be popping up at future orchard events as well as local markets. Take a look and be proud of our home-grown Orchard.
Everyone welcome to this celebration Bring a book and/or seed packet to add to our new little library box to be mounted on our Mulberry Farm Lane fence. Thanks to Garvin from FreMan Shed for making it for us.
Thank you Sam and Dave for your fine carpentry work and use of recycled timbers and Australian plantation timbers for a sustainable build. We look forward to the shade and shelter it will provide us in future community events and harvests.
In 2018, 19 and 20 we are picked on verges in the Valley and in Booyeembara, picking a total of about half a tonne of olives. The oil percentage varies but we end up with around 70-90 litres of oil. Want to join the next harvest?
It has taken a while for the many hands of Cavendish bananas to ripen but they are finally turning yellow as the summer wears on and tasting good. We also have a small crop of figs on our Blue Jenny fig. We have a policy of if you give a little to the Orchard, then feel free to enjoy its fruits as they ripen. If you’re not a member yet, sign up here or on our mailing list for busy bees and other events, email us.
A successful partnership between the orchard and Hazel Orme Kindergarten saw the Orchard buzzing with live music, whip cracking entertainment, fire truck visit, a nature mosaic and a great turnip of locals.
In addition to our new banner, the shed shutters and doors adorned with artwork. We celebrated over a delicious sweets table in the shade of the banana grove and then got into some watering, weeding, pruning and understory planting.
In 2017 we pressed 40Litres of oil and in 2018 with very ripe olives picked we had maximum oil content and 90Litres pressed and bottles for pickers and locals.