It’s that time of year where we are all-systems go on the orchard! Peaches and nectarines have now finished for the season (they will be back in No...

Stone fruit season is almost here! Nectarines will be available first with peaches to follow. We will have these available for purchase in the fa...

When we sent a selection of our ciders to the world cider awards, judged in London we hoped we may do well but were shocked and somewhat overwhelme...

We have been busy packing and delivering our apples, cider, honey and other goodies. We have free delivery with orders over $50 from Sutherland to ...

Full bloom is where we have at least 90% of blossoms flowering. Every variety of stone fruit has a certain number of days between full bloom and ...

The second stage of stone fruit flower development is called ‘pink’! Pink is when we see the first sign of pink petals pushing through the buds. We...

While it may look from a distance that these trees are sleeping, there’s a lot happening beneath the surface. From the moment these peach trees fin...

August is a beautiful time of the year on the orchard, where the stone fruit trees burst into rows of white & pink blossom. 

January is white peach time and at the end of January after Australia Day we should start Picking Apples. 

Darkes Forest is named after William Wedge Darke. (1810-1890).William Wedge Darke was a young, British born surveyor who was assigned to Melbourne ...

What a year we have had this past 12 months! Thanks to our local Web wonders ‘Internetrix’ who have been helping us to build this fabulous new onli...