Tree Care Monday Dec 5th from 8:30am
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.
The unique Orchard shirt has arrived
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.
Little Seed & Book Library comes to our Orchard Sunday
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.
Breaking News! Our beautiful Picnic Shelter is built – take a visit!
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 April we harvest olives for oil!!!
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?
In our 3rd summer on site we are now harvesting bananas and figs
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.
Summer Fiesta sets the Orchard alive-Nov
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.
We’ve turned 3 (Oct-2017) & celebrated the completion of our art project
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.
Our olive harvests 2017 & 2018
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.
We had a great Citrus Workshop, thanks to Peter Coppin and all of you who attended.
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.