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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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21.02.2022 Currently picking lots of apricots suitable for jam and drying. Good size but also freckly! Lots of peaches around now too and the veggie gardens are also keeping me busy with plenty of zucchinis and fennel, silverbeet, and beetroot coming in. Just out of interest I have purchased a big roll of 100% compostable plant "plastic" to assist me with my weed suppression so we shall see how that goes. At this stage, I am mostly using it in the walkways as opposed to on the beds themselves.

06.02.2022 A busy morning fixing irrigation, picking Zucchini, peaches and figs. With the day warming up I worked up quite a sweat, when some customers walked in looking for some produce.... and also to inform me that a tree was down blocking the road! Just what I needed! After running them back to their car and partaking in a restorative coffee, I sharpened the chainsaw and headed back out into the hot midday sun... convincing myself that I am that strong resilient countrywoman type. Cleared the road just in time for another customer! Before and after pics.

03.02.2022 Wishing you all a very bright 2022! Thank you for all your support throughout this past year whether it be from your purchases of my products or having me cook a meal for you, your comments and encouragement, your sharing and interest. I feel very grateful to have such a strong network of friends. Looking forward to more of the same into the new year and wishing you the very best too!

23.01.2022 Brushcutting around fruit trees and handweeding in the beetroot patch this morning. Not enough volume of drying apricots yet to get our big dryer running so thought I would get our little one out .... so jam making, stewing and drying this arvo! A satisfying, productive time making the most of bird pecked fruit!

22.01.2022 Snow peas growing strongly in our poly house. I love munching on them for a snack whilst pruning and it is great way for me to get my salad quota as I seem to only want to sit down to hot comfort foods of an evening. Plenty of fresh, crisp ones available from the farm gate. Enjoy your Sunday!

22.01.2022 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 OReillys 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!

21.01.2022 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!

21.01.2022 Look at some of the beautiful fruit coming into the packing shed this morning! Beautiful working weather and the living is easy! Ill take it while weve got it!

20.01.2022 What a lovely lot of rain and with some very good timing we managed to get our onion beds prepared and a lot of these onion seedlings moved in ahead of it. The seeds were sown back in April and May and are lovely and healthy..... A good mix of white, red and browns!

19.01.2022 Blood sun rising as I make my way to the Clare Showground market this morning with All this beautiful fruit on board!

18.01.2022 We OReillys attended both Clare Show Market and Port Pirie Producers Market markets this weekend and we would like to say thank you to all who came along! Wirrabara Producers Market is on next Sunday and we will have plenty of tasty tomatoes and plums there with summer produce now really coming along.

18.01.2022 Currently picking lots of apricots suitable for jam and drying. Good size but also freckly! Lots of peaches around now too and the veggie gardens are also keeping me busy with plenty of zucchinis and fennel, silverbeet, and beetroot coming in. Just out of interest I have purchased a big roll of 100% compostable plant "plastic" to assist me with my weed suppression so we shall see how that goes. At this stage, I am mostly using it in the walkways as opposed to on the beds themselves.

18.01.2022 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!

17.01.2022 It is just such perfect weather for pruning at the moment.....so I thought I would share a before and after pic of this apricot tree. The tree had a lot of good strong new growth of which I removed or cut back around 45%.....I also cut out about 5% old wood. These ratios vary with every tree depending on their story and how they have responded both to the previous pruning but also the season ..... just how they have dealt with life in general. The idea is to prune for both fruit and new wood for the following year and to try to obtain a balance of each within the capacity of the tree..... It can be very interesting!

16.01.2022 Our season is on the cusp of getting underway! We are all bright eyed and bushy tailed and so excited of the potential ahead! The spring has been so kind with no real burning hot days. This is great for the developing fruit as the leaves develop their protective shade cover. A collage of picks from my morning orchard walk.

16.01.2022 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!

16.01.2022 With all this crazy hot weather the tomatoes are still going and going! I think we now have two years worth of sauce put away!

15.01.2022 Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weekend as I am! I am very grateful that a near neighbour, Paul Cleggett, has been over a couple of times recently helping me get much better acquainted with my garden tractor (it's a golden oldie) - both the operations and the servicing of. It has really lifted my confidence and the result is I now have quite a bit of area worked up, composted and planted to lots of veggies! More to do but it's a solid start! The fruit season is a l...ittle behind this year but this coming week of warmer weather should trigger an escalation of ripening. Produce available from the farm shed this week includes cos lettuce, broad beans, baby beetroot, salad onions and lemons.

15.01.2022 Beautiful comments from the lovely folks who have been coming to have meals with us recently! It is such a pleasure to cook for you all!

14.01.2022 A little time to play on this drizzly morning! We will be beginning the roll out of our box deliveries from the 1st Thursday in December to Port Pirie and surrounds. The fruit appears a little slow this year due to the cooler weather. Lots of fresh vegetables coming on too.

14.01.2022 Early in the autumn we did a big goat shed clean out, making a significant compost pile,totalling several of these trailer loads. We have been fortunate to receive a few inches of rain since and it has been breaking down nicely. Hoping for some decent winter rains we have decided to get it out around our Apricots, where it can continue to break down and begin "moving into" the soil.

14.01.2022 The dry period SA is experiencing began last Spring and started to affect us around December when Kangaroos and Deer regularly moved in to feed at night. Unfortunately veggie beds began to be destroyed and we had to give up on our autumn plantings......hence crops like beetroot, silverbeet and all the leafy greens were almost non existant. As we have moved through winter any hope of a return to normality has disappeared and throughout winter large kangaroos desperate for fi...bre and minerals have chewed bark and damaged trees unlike anything we have seen before. This week early spring plantings of broccoli have just been destroyed by 60%. So we have had to ACT! Pictured is a young tree with the bark stripped which will not kill it but set it back a couple of years and David next building a new fence construction. Not the easiest way to make a living I can assure you! Paradise is not always perfect! Feel sorry for the Kangaroos too! See more

13.01.2022 Well I am pleased to say that the new fence has resulted in zero incursions from the ravenous wildlife and as a result we are growing lots of greens again. All plantings are flourishing and we have good supplies of top quality broccoli and broad beans now being harvested! Visit the farm gate or see us at #Port Pirie Producers Market this next Sunday!

13.01.2022 Winter in the Flinders Ranges and Outback Tourism features in todays InDaily edition! Check out what they say about some of the amazing tourism operators base...d in this region. Well done guys! Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary Flinders Food Co. The Heysen Trail Beetaloo Grove Rawnsley Park Station Ikara Safari Camp - Flinders Ranges, SA OReillys Orchard Emilys Bistro #SeeSouthAustralia #SouthAustralia #FlindersRangesandOutback

11.01.2022 The luminosity of these red cabbages have been really catching my eye...the pic doesnt quite show it off. Fortunately the gardens seem to have largely survived the recent heat attacks and hopefully we can now look forward to more reasonable days ahead. The polyhouse has a shade cover over it and looking at this pic it looks like a feral food jungle, so looks like happy plants....just not enough hours in the day!

09.01.2022 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.

09.01.2022 Have just rescued the last of the pumpkin harvest from the cold, cold garden! These butternuts with green Kent pumpkin like stripes are a variety called Barbara. They have a beautiful dark orange flesh and great eating quality. Many of you may have picked one up from us at markets or received them in your boxes over the last couple of months. Do you like them? Better than regular butternuts or would you prefer we grow more of the normal ones?

08.01.2022 Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weekend as I am! I am very grateful that a near neighbour, Paul Cleggett, has been over a couple of times recently helping me get much better acquainted with my garden tractor (it's a golden oldie) - both the operations and the servicing of. It has really lifted my confidence and the result is I now have quite a bit of area worked up, composted and planted to lots of veggies! More to do but it's a solid start! The fruit season is a l...ittle behind this year but this coming week of warmer weather should trigger an escalation of ripening. Produce available from the farm shed this week includes cos lettuce, broad beans, baby beetroot, salad onions and lemons.

08.01.2022 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 Im so sorry I couldnt save you. Im 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. Heres 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 Queenslands rate of land clearing is on a par with Brazils 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 whats left of Australias 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 suns heat and cool the earths 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 weve lost already. We who dont want our precious wildlife to be cast out of their forest homes to die. Just ten words. Thats all Im 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, Australias Chief Scientist, WWF report with Professor Chris Dickman Terrestrial Ecology Sydney University.

06.01.2022 Welcome to the New Year and heres to hoping we all get a little of what we wish for! I have been enjoying the beautiful much cooler weather this morning and we have been picking some beautiful fruit, new seasons tomatoes and lots of red onions and beetroot. The fresh silverbeet crop is going really well and it looks like a cheese and spinach pie (Davids favourite) is on the menu request, with me being the pastry cook! We have just three boxes of 2nds Apricots for stewing and jam left. We are here all weekend and if you want to call into the farm gate it will be nice to see you!

06.01.2022 Fantastic way to spend a super cold Saturday, with this beautiful fresh produce from which to cook up a storm, for one of our popular farm to table dining experiences! #farmtotableeating #freshfromthegarden #cookingupastorm #wirrabaraforest

05.01.2022 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!

05.01.2022 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 todays deliveries as well as being available here at the farm shed. Have a great day!

04.01.2022 Always a fun time at the @portgermeinforeshoremarket where our @wirrabaraforest produce is well received.

04.01.2022 Tomorrow Port Pirie Producers Market will have its 10th anniversary! Not sure where those years have gone. Thank you to efforts from their volunteers over that time! We have the last of the lingering summer crops together with the autumnal veggies. The Florence Fennel is particularly good. Lovely for munching on fresh as a snack and full of nutrients. Similar to celery in how you can use it and if you are not sure about its mild aniseed flavour, this dissipates on cooking. Plenty of our Chantennay carrots.....my absolute fave! See you there!

03.01.2022 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!

03.01.2022 Happy Sunday, friends! After weeks of seemingly endless slashing, thinning, weeding and mulching the fruit season now looks tantalisingly close. These early Solar Flare Apricots will be picked next week and things should progress from there on. Whilst it had been incredibly dry the trees look Ok and this is largely due to what has been a relatively kind spring with cool nights. David has just left for #PortGermeinForeshoreMarket with some lovely quality broccoli and salad onions!

03.01.2022 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 todays 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!

03.01.2022 This week we have been enjoying the kind of downtime we havent had for months. Yes beautiful weather for it too, although like everyone some more of that wet stuff that falls from the sky wouldnt go astray. It has in fact just this last couple of minutes started to rain.....not heavy but real rain and not drizzle. Today we pulled our finger out and foraged over all the garden beds to find all this lovely produce for tomorrows markets. David will be at Port Germein Foreshore Market and Jackie is heading up to Quorn Quorn - Out & About

02.01.2022 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

02.01.2022 Thought I would share a pic with you of the hottest chilli in the world! The Carolina Reaper is one you need to take a little care with. Our bush is just over 1 metre high and we have had a few available at markets, if you are keen to give them a try!

02.01.2022 Lots of rain, around 35mm since it started! Thought I would post this lovely photo taken in the beetroot patch. Isabelle is a fine artist from Sydney who stayed with us for nearly 3 weeks. It was a real pleasure to host her and she is very keen to learn all about organic gardening. We are looking forward to Wirrabara market this Sunday where we will have lots of this lovely beetroot!

02.01.2022 Mayuri from Japan will be at market with David on Sunday (tomorrow) at Pt. Germein. Fresh fennel, together with root veggies and leeks plus Meyer lemons. This leek pictured didn't make the grade though as it was too long to fit in the packing box! The longest leek I have ever grown, the white section measures 64cm.

02.01.2022 The Apricots are now on a roll and tasting great! I am pleased to introduce you to a new resident of Wirrabara @GemmaWarren who is giving us a much needed hand and is very keen to learn. David and I are travelling north to Pt. Augusta tomorrow, so if you would like some 'cots please PM me and we may be able to get them to you!

01.01.2022 Had a great day in the beautiful sunshine coordinating and instructing a group of lovely women in a combined bread making and pruning workshop! Thank you very much for your interest and friendship!

01.01.2022 Thought this Durado Plum tree looked pretty good in the morning sun! These plums are available now from the farm gate and we will have them at Port Pirie Producers Market this coming Sunday.

31.12.2021 Baking today and taking my Home made, french style tarts (choice of spinach or asparagus) to the Orroroo street party tomorrow evening. Titled "Despite the Dust" it should be great fun and The Baker Boy Band is playing. Check out their Facebook page. It is a free but ticketed event, so just see the links on their page. If you are looking for a local evening out, this is it!