Harvest Ready - Harvest Skills

There's so much more to harvesting than just removing fruit from a tree! Learn how to care for the fruit, the trees and become an excellent fruit picker!

Join us for a hands-on workshop with Katie and Hugh Finlay from Grow Great Fruit and The Orchard Keepers, where you’ll learn essential skills for harvesting fruit. This session will include both theory and hands-on practice, with some real picking opportunities.

The workshop will cover:

• How to know when fruit is ripe

• Choosing the right time to pick

• Picking protocols

• Best-practise picking techniques

• Practical, supervised harvesting practice

Should I come along?

Yes! This workshop is for you if you:

• Are a Fruit Crew participant or Growing Abundance volunteer or...

• Currently work or volunteer, or plan to, with harvesting fruit or...

• Want to build confidence with harvesting fruit.

This is an outdoor workshop, so wear appropriate protective clothing, including closed shoes, a hat, and gardening gloves.

Facilitator: Katie Finlay
Date: Thursday 12th March
Time: 2-5pm
Location: TBC - in Mount Alexander Shire

Fees: $30 per person. (***Free for all Fruit Crew (registered with The Orchard Keepers) and GA Harvest volunteers (registered with Growing Abundance Project).)

Bring: Please bring your lunch, water bottle, sun hat and wear closed toe shoes.

All training is delivered in a supportive, inclusive setting with a strong focus on safety and confidence-building.

Harvest Ready Program is made possible by ANCHA providing the Stronger & Resilient Communities Grant, funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services.