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HFS Public Events

 

Included in this calendar are our planned public events:

Also listed below are our next few volunteer workshops, which are generally run three times each month.


We hope to see you soon!

  

    

Upcoming events

  • HFS Volunteer Workshop

    • Wed, July 16, 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • HFS Heritage Block at Petty's Orchard, 1 Homestead Road, Templestowe

    HFS Volunteer Workshop: you're cordially invited to help maintain and develop our heritage orchard and its facilities ... and to enjoy a friendly chat over a cuppa. These workshops are always engaging, educational, productive and fun! We meet at our big white marquee in the HFS Heritage Block - enter through the gate about 50 metres to the left of Petty's Orchard Cafe's door. No prior registration is needed: just front up.

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  • HFS Volunteer Workshop

    • Sat, July 19, 2025
    • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
    • HFS Heritage Block at Petty's Orchard, 1 Homestead Road, Templestowe
    HFS Volunteer Workshop: you're cordially invited to help maintain and develop our heritage orchard and its facilities ... and to enjoy a friendly chat over a cuppa. These workshops are always engaging, educational, productive and fun! We meet at our big white marquee in the HFS Heritage Block - enter through the gate about 50 metres to the left of Petty's Orchard Cafe's door. No prior registration is needed: just front up.
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  • HFS Grafting Day Preparation

    • Sat, July 26, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • HFS Heritage Block at Petty's Orchard, 1 Homestead Road, Templestowe
    HFS Grafting Day Preparation

    This will be a special fun and social afternoon to prepare for the HFS Grafting and Tree Sales Days the following weekend. All are welcome, and no special skills are required. As ever, there will be lots to do - but lots of joy in doing it together.

    Our objectives will be:

        - Collecting, preparing and bundling scion material from the orchard for sale and grafting purposes
        - Preparing for selling trees: moving tree pots from and to the right places, and ensuring trees are legibly labelled
        - Ensuring that all materials we'll need are there, and accessible

    This will be a great opportunity to experience what makes HFS really tick, learn more about the HFS collections and how we manage them, and to enjoy a social afternoon as well. Please come along to help if you can! It’s hardly essential to come for the entire afternoon: by all means, just pop in for an hour or two – every bit of effort helps. Afternoon tea and endless hot cuppas will be provided, but feel free to bring your own lunch. We’ll put up additional marquee(s) and wind protection, and do everything we can to make conditions comfortable for everyone ... but it’d be wise to rug up anyway. We hope to see you there!

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  • HFS Grafting and Tree/Scion Sales Day at CERES

    • Sat, August 02, 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • CERES, at corner of Stewart Street and Roberts Street, Brunswick
    Our annual free Grafting and Tree Sales Day at CERES! Here, visitors can:
    • obtain scion (budwood) from many of our hundreds of varieties of apples and other fruits
    • request on-site grafting of apple scion onto suitable rootstock we provide (please note: ungrafted rootstock will not be available for separate sale)
    • purchase pre-grafted young fruit trees, ready for planting out
    • observe experienced (and helpful and friendly) HFS volunteers as they graft up new trees
    • ask our knowledgeable volunteers about all aspects of the above
    No prior registration required. More details will appear on our website prior to the event.
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    • HFS Grafting and Tree/Scion Sales Day at Petty's Orchard

      • Sun, August 03, 2025
      • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Petty's Orchard, 1 Homestead Road, Templestowe

      Our annual free Grafting and Tree Sales Day at Petty's Orchard in Templestowe! Here, visitors can:

      • obtain scion (budwood) from many of our hundreds of varieties of apples and other fruits
      • request on-site grafting of apple scion onto suitable rootstock we provide (please note: ungrafted rootstock will not be available for separate sale)
      • purchase pre-grafted young fruit trees, ready for planting out
      • observe experienced (and helpful and friendly) HFS volunteers as they graft up new trees
      • ask our knowledgeable volunteers about all aspects of the above
      • see and learn about our historic fruit trees at Petty's Orchard

      No prior registration required. More details will appear on our website prior to the event.

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