Carr’s Organic Fruit Tree Nursery
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Saving our apple heritage
Carr’s Organic Fruit Tree Nursery at Harcourt is urging community members to ‘plant a fruit tree you’ve never heard of’ in a bid to save our heritage fruit varieties from extinction. Carr’s Nursery’s Katie Finlay said there were hundreds of different apple varieties in the world, but many were on the brink of disappearing. “If…
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Preserving our heritage apples
Harcourt has always been known as the ‘apple centre of Victoria’ but in recent years some of its heritage apple varieties have almost disappeared.One family of long-time Harcourt orchardists is trying to do its bit to save these heritage gems by making them available to the wider community. Carr’s Organic Fruit Tree Nursery co-owner Katie…