PICO – Phillip Island Community Orchard

• 0.5 hectare
  Size of the garden
• 60
  Number of garden members
• $20.00 per annum
  Membership fees
• $20.00
  Annual costs to run the garden
• Westernport Water
  Who do you lease the land from
• Basscoast Landcare, Diggers 'Seed the Future'
  Other organisations involved in the garden

Phillip Island Community Orchard (PICO) is a community-run orchard located on Phillip Island.

PICO  aims to be a community-run project that shares, inspires, educates, engages and re-skills the local community and its visitors.

History

The Phillip Island Community Orchard, (PICO), was established in 2013 by a small group of keen gardeners.  These original members planted over 100 fruit, nut and avocado trees during a 3 year period.  These tree have grown successfully with the aid unlimited of Class A Recycled water available from our partners Westernport Water.

Features

• Access: open to public at specific times
• Access: open to public during special events
• Access: toilets within 40m
• Food: donated to food banks etc
• Food: for community events
• Food: swapping & trading
• Funding: in-kind
• Funding: non-govt. orgs.
• Management: both individual plots & shared garden
• Mostly food production
• Size: greater than 10 sq metres
• Waste: compost and/or wormfarm

Location