Interested in learning to care for fruit trees and vines? Love to eat local organic fruit and meet new people?
This group is an opportunity to learn how to manage a mixed orchard.
Bring any knowledge you have and learn with others.
What you get:
- Learning and experience in pruning many kinds of fruit trees and vines:
- Apple, pear and nashi,
- Stone fruit: peach, apricot, plum
- Citrus: lemon, orange, mandarin, lemonade
- Kiwi fruit
- Also persimmon, grape, olive, feijoa, pomegranate, tamarillo.
- Organic fruit in season
- Free workshops on bottling fruit
- Option to learn about root stock and grafting new fruit trees
- To be part of a community of people building skills for sustainable living
- The joy of shared work and shared meals with a group.
What you provide:
- Your attendance at the Orchard Collective monthly gatherings, as often as you can (the first Sunday of the month)
- Commitment to one or more orchard care jobs, for example: watering, fertilising, harvesting, documentation, research.
- Support for other group members to learn together
- Bring a plate of food for a shared lunch at the end of each orchard session.
Who is this for?
Anyone interested in learning about urban orchard care who likes to eat organic fruit!
The workshops will happen primarily at the RESEED Centre in Penguin, so you’ll need to be a convenient distance from there.
Is there a cost to join? No! Your time spent learning and practicing will get the pruning done and the trees cared for, and in return you’ll have new knowledge, new friends, and tasty organic fruit.
Please contact us to express your interest: [email protected]
Questions to Nick [email protected] or 0428 834 748.
