This one day course will give you the basic skills to make an apple cider & scrumpy or Pear cider (Perry) and then we will taste an apple cider made in 5 days using smkt apple juice.

After a discussion on varieties of cider apples and other details on wine making 

we will then make a batch of fruit wine ( the variety will depend on whats in season)

Due to the many customer inquires- we are opening our gate for these 2 days for sales of fruti trees with the new bare rooted tress available now and our potted range as well.

So from 11am sunday & monday 13-14th june 2010. we will sell our trees here at Invermay rd Monbulk, come in from the Olinda Monabulk rd end and we are on the left at the top of the hill.

Pears, cherry, stone fruit- plum, nectarine, peach, figs and so much more available as bare rooted stock - with some in pots, The citrus are available in dwarf 1mts tall, 20cm pots, or larger advanced trees plus double grafted pots as well, some excellent for cold climates.

 

 

This list of apples will be available in winter june - Aug as 1year old grafted trees barerooted, some will also be avaialble as 2yr old in pots.

There may also be others as well we have available in our collection around 450

What a reaction from the public, last year while the group was in transition we had about 360 people show up, in 2010 we had around 4000.

We had to call the police to help fix the traffic jam around 1-2pm and they closed the entry down to control the traffic so if you were unable to attend we sinceley apoligise for any inconvenience.

Our open day this year has changed format

With the nursery now open for sales with  hundreds of varities of fruit trees available.

We will open the nursery & 100yr old shed from 11-4pm entry is now free (not $10)

We will sell devonshire tea/ coffee plus maybe cake and apple pie,

Silvia and I were happy in Nov 2009 to deliver some of our Heritage fruit trees from our nursery that will be used to reinstate the 1920's Orchard behind Werribee Mansion, although records of the original varieties are not available apples, pears, plums & Quinces will be planted to add to the existing old trees that were very overgrown, we also know peaches were grown in the times of 1923-1

Our first Public Open day will be on Sunday 27th of September.

Since I completed the Permacuture Design for the property in 1995, Telopea Mtn Permaculture Nursery has become home to many hundreds of varieties of fruiting trees and plants, these have been continualy planted for the 15 years we have been here.

Kidd's Orange Red is the 2009 winner of Apple of the year at the Petty's open day.

With parents such as Cox's Orange Pippin and Delicious how could you go wrong. It was developed in NZ in 1924