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O'Reilly's Orchard

Locality: Wirrabara, South Australia, Australia

Phone: +61 407 742 006

Address: 184 Watts Gully Rd 5481 Wirrabara, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.oreillysorchard.com.au

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23.01.2022 Wirrabara Producers Market is on this Sunday! Always a fun market and we will have a good supply of yellow and black plums, plenty of cucumbers and tomatoes and Nashi Pears as well as a few boxes of these Galaxy Apples that David has been picking today! And the weather is set to be perfect!

21.01.2022 Summertime living is easy when the weather is as kind as it is this week! Add in the benefits of this fresh and delicious variety of fruits and vegetables and well life can be just plain good! Farm gate open all day today or perhaps we will see you at the Wirrabara Producers Market this Sunday!

20.01.2022 O'Reilly's Orchard Southern Flinders Ranges Southern Flinders Ranges South Australia is an outdoor venue available for your private small group lunch. Taking bookings now for up to ten from May11th. Head out and have fun & enjoy our beautiful region and stay safe as the roads get busier!

17.01.2022 What a wonderful rain! 73mm in total and a real relief after the last few hot and dry weeks. This was a decent soaking rain of over 12 hours in duration. The sort of rain that not only benefits the trees that still have fruit on, but the trees that have done their work will have the moisture they need to support them in developing good growth for next years fruit...very timely indeed and a real facelift for us and the garden ecology! With today's mild weather I have been weeding and sowing seeds for our autumn-winter crops. As well we are picking lots of fruit and vegetables, so lots of grading and packing this arvo!

17.01.2022 A few months ago I posted pics of our onion seedlings and the bed preparation for them. Now that we are harvesting them, I thought I would share an update pic. Picking for #portpirieproducersmarket tomorrow!

15.01.2022 The Apricots are really on the move now and we have a good crop of clean, small to medium size fruit. Boxes of excellent quality seconds for jam and stewing are available now direct from the orchard. #southernflindersranges Southern Flinders Ranges South Australia #apricots #farmgate Ladies on the Land Wirrabara, South Australia, Australia Clare Show Market this Saturday and Wirrabara Producers Market on Sunday!

15.01.2022 I need your help. Like you, I am feeling shock and grief at the destruction of the billion wildlife in these fires. So many of us want to put our arms around ou...r hurting wildlife and say ‘I’m so sorry I couldn’t save you. I’m so sorry it has come to this.’ But there is something powerful that we can do. That we must do. And this is it: we can unite in a single call for something right now that will make a difference to the millions of Australian wildlife that are still alive. We are the worst destroyers of native forest and wildlife habitat in the developed world. And the time has come now for that to stop. Here’s a sample of what land clearing has done and is doing to our country: 45 million wildlife killed in 2015-16 in Queensland 87 million animals killed in New South Wales between 1998 and 2015 Queensland’s rate of land clearing is on a par with Brazil’s destruction of the Amazon Rainforest (ABC Fact Check 2018). We need laws to protect the last of our native forests from logging and clearing, and we need existing restrictions to be enforced. And we need this to happen now. The platypus and koala have been here for more than 20 million years. And now they are moving ever closer to extinction because land clearing has destroyed their homes. Bulldozers and chainsaws are out there right now clearing our forests, poisoning our rivers and reefs with silt and runoff, destroying what’s left of Australia’s ancient and beautiful web of life that can never be replaced. Our forests are the lungs of the earth too. They create the air we breathe. And they help lessen the impacts of climate change. Because every tree holds carbon. And a forest holds huge amounts, far more than grasslands. Healthy forests also block the sun’s heat and cool the earth’s surface with their shadows. And now recent studies suggest that forests influence local rainfall patterns too, and may also be part of larger global rainfall cycles. So I am asking you for your help. To speak up for the forests and our wildlife. And to speak up for all of us too, who love our country just like you do. We who are feeling the grief for what we’ve lost already. We who don’t want our precious wildlife to be cast out of their forest homes to die. Just ten words. That’s all I’m asking of you. Please say them all over social media. Again and again. Say them to every group you belong to. On every platform you can access. Say them at every gathering you attend. Add them to you email signature. Write them down and send them to state and federal politicians. Ask your friends and family to do the same. Every chance you get spread the call across Australia until we get what is needed for our country. For our home. And for the home of our wildlife. Protect in law our native forests. Stop land clearing now! #Stoplandclearingnow Please share these ten words and the evidence behind them as widely as you can. Make your own post and share that too. Cut and paste my koala photo and add that to your posts, your blogs and online articles. Data above from on line articles featuring Dr Martin Taylor ecologist with WWF, Australia's Chief Scientist, WWF report with Professor Chris Dickman Terrestrial Ecology Sydney University.

13.01.2022 Greetings to you All! How are you? Hopefully finding a good pathway for yourselves through our changing circumstances! I have been cosy and warm this morning, pottering in our polyhouse and picking the purple climbing beans which are just getting going. I have been joined by a group of silvereyes which you may spot in a couple of the pics.

08.01.2022 From our #WirrabaraForest garden we are wishing everyone the best for the year ahead. Like many of you, we have found the last weeks of heat and stories of bushfires tumultuous and our thoughts are with the folks affected and of the landscape, agricultural and environmental losses. I was asked recently how we get our gardens through the hot weather. Not easily, and there will be damage with scalded apples and attacks from thirsty birds! Watering is x3 when the temps head... over 40c as opposed to a milder 25c. Things like zucchini needs to be picked daily as "sausage babies".....Like this they are delicious eaten raw in salad. Keeping them picked hard will reduce the plants workload and increase its overall productivity and lifespan. If you have several plants this is a great time to take an early morning harvest of the "petite courgettes" with their open flowers which you can then stuff with your favourite filling and pan fry in olive oil. This is a holiday season activity I adore. See more

07.01.2022 Blood sun rising as I make my way to the Clare Showground market this morning with All this beautiful fruit on board!

05.01.2022 Over the last two to three weeks the last of our summer boxes have been rolled out. Pictured with the some of those is David and #AdrienSaintDidier, a young organic agronomist, who is learning the skills needed to one day buy his own farm, stayed with us for one month during the height of the covid isolation period. We are grateful for the time and effort he put into helping us with our autumnal tasks. Most recently I have been taking a little breathing space after the intensity of the summer harvest and thinking about the way forward through winter.......always full of ideas but making things happen adds to the complexities! Time for contemplation is the key and the perfect job has been to renovate my 270m horse fence rail with a lot of sanding and a fresh paint!

03.01.2022 Look at some of the beautiful fruit coming into the packing shed this morning! Beautiful working weather and the living is easy! I'll take it while we've got it!

02.01.2022 My first ever quad squash! These little guys are all conjoined and were quite the curiosity for me this morning! Never a dull day on the land! These Golden Delicious apples are currently being picked.....so delicious and being packed for today's deliveries as well as being available here at the farm shed. Have a great day!