- 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
- 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. History of 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.
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
