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ABC TV 7:30pm Friday 2 July
ABC TV is beaming our orchard right to your living room. Filmed in the peak of our cherry season last December, snippets from our orchard are part of a new show Movin' to the country
Sunflower Picking Sat 16 Jan 2021 from 1pm
Sunflowers and zinnias are bursting into colourful bloom in a pollinator feed strip that we planted alongside our cherry orchard. Book now to take a stroll through the blooms and pick yourself a bunch of colour to take home. One afternoon only Saturday 16 January from...
Cherry season 2020 draws to a close
Cherry picking is now over for the season. Thank-you to all those who visited and to the amazing team who worked with us this season. We started the season with the best crop we'd had in years, fantastic recovery after the drought years. I'd put a lot into the crop...
[season now closed] Pick Your Own Cherries opens from 4 Dec
2020 Season closed. Bookings for 2021 season will open after blossom when we can see we have cherries trees - here's hoping the season is kind and brings plenty of cherries! To be the first to know when bookings open, sign up to our Cherry Chatter occasional,...
Cherry blossom bookings
Come enjoy the beauty of our cherry orchard in springtime when we open the farm October 4. We're hope it gives some joy in what's been a most unusual year. Take a stroll through the cherry orchard, enjoy the cherry blossoms and the excitement of new beginnings. You...
Winter in the orchard
There's no fruit to pick right now. Our trees stand graceful with a sculptural beauty in their leafless winter dormancy. Pruned and fed they are saving resources and soaking in the winter chill as they get ready to burst into blossom in spring for fruit in summer. ...
Autumn gold
My little cover crop is coming up beautifully. We cultivated and planted every second row through the orchard, trying to remove and outcompete the weedy, clumpy paspalum grass and bring some life and organic matter back into the soils. The barley has sprinted away...
KIRSEBÆR SOVS Danish cherry sauce
A few people have asked me for this recipe. Any Dane knows it well as the traditional Danish Christmas dessert is this cherry sauce served over a rice and almond and cream pudding (risalamande). There's one whole almond in the pudding and whoever is lucky enough to...
2019 Cherry season closed
And that's it - our most unpredictable cherry season is closed ... we've no cherries left to pick. Thank-you to all who visited our orchard or met our cherry express. The cherries really were the boss this season... driven by some extreme swings in weather...