Harvesting unwanted fruit from private and public land and redistributing it to the community.
Big harvest coming up this Saturday! We’ve been invited to harvest fruit from a magnificent local home orchard – apples, pears, nashi & quince are ready to pick. This is a great orchard; well designed, well maintained and no sprays or chemicals used. We’ve created 15 spaces for the event so it’ll be a fun … Continue reading Orchardfest
We had a great time last night picking some fabulous Beurre Bosc pears. To fit in with 9-5 workers, the harvest kicked off at 6.30, which gave us just enough time to strip this tree. The owner only wanted a bag or so for her daughter to stew, so the rest of the pears were … Continue reading Pear harvest
We’re experimenting with a few early evening harvests, as well as continuing our daytime ones. This is because a few volunteers work full-time and have asked for harvests outside regular work hours. Next Tuesday, we’re harvesting from a heavily-laden pear tree. It is dropping pears now so we’d better get to it – and the … Continue reading Pear harvest
2018 for The Hidden Orchard is in full swing! This evening we had an excellent apple harvest with 4 first time volunteers, led by Ellen and Sandy. We spent an hour picking big green apples from a huge tree in Brown Hill, leaving plenty of apples that were out of our reach for the neighbourhood … Continue reading Apple Harvest
What better way to celebrate the first day of Autumn than to climb a tree and harvest crab apples! Over 30 kg of these lovely large crabs were harvested in under an hour. The homeowners were very happy to see them go to good homes; half went off to Food is Free Laneway and the … Continue reading Crab apple harvest
Did you see us featured in the current edition of The Weekly Times? If not, here is the article Hope you enjoy it! 🙂 Continue reading The Weekly Times
The harvest season is starting to stir – we’ve had several volunteer inquiries and fruit tree registrations in the last week or so… and even a couple of very small harvests (too small to make them picking events). The THO committee meet last Friday and put a few plans in place for the coming season. … Continue reading Here we come!
Committee member Ellen Burns spoke about The Hidden Orchard to a group at the Ballarat Central Library on Wednesday Dec 20. We were one of a number of community groups sharing about their activities to potential volunteers. As usual, people loved the concept, so we hope a few jump on the website and register. Continue reading Library talk
Get down to Trades Hall (Camp St, Ballarat) this morning to support committee member Steve Burns as he shares The Hidden Orchard story with those attending the Junkies “Rethink” exhibition. Full details of the exhibition are at the Junkies Events page. Steve’s talk is at 11.30. There’s a range of speakers with BPG’s old mate … Continue reading “Rethink” exhibition – today!
Thanks to everyone who bought jam or took fliers at the Ballarat Farmers Market yesterday! We had a great day up by Lake Wendouree, with loads of jam sales and lots of interest in the project. Kris & Sandy staffed the stall, with Ellen providing tech support from her adjoining stall and Steve doing a … Continue reading Market Day!
