With the holidays upon us, remember to pack your togs for a splash at Pinders Pond after picking your own fruit or purchasing off the Fruit Stall.

Pinders is only 2 km down the road from us and even has a toilet these days.
No more ducking into the bushes!
Dawson cherries are now available on our Stall along with new spuds.
The cherries are in 1kg bags for $8.00 and the new spuds are 2kg for $5.00
Ruby also has a selection of grasses and herb plants for sale.
There is a great PYO cherry place in town should anybody want to pick their own.

Our apricots will be ready for PYO hopefully by about the 7th of January and from then on there will be fruit coming on at a fast rate.

Check our blog for daily updates or give us a ring.

And if you want to picnic in the Orchard, feel free to bring along your blanket and deck chairs as there are plenty of trees to shade under!
You are welcome to wander through our tranquil gardens also.
During the Fruit Season the weeds get away on us so it can look a wee bit like a jungle at times but still ever so peaceful.

There is a selection of places in town to buy your ice creams, pies, take-aways, sit down meals, etc.
And do check out 103 The Store.
You will not be disappointed!

If you are caught short in town, the Roxburgh Loo Ladies have done us proud. Lovely modern facilities with a living grass wall and a magnificent sculpture created by Bill and Michelle Clarke adorning the entrance.

The new cycle track is also very popular, especially with families biking down to Pinders Pond or further afield.

And if you want to make a weekend of it the accommodation offered in our Valley is of an excellent standard.
If it’s a Contemporary Studio Room, Backpackers, Cabin, Motel Unit, Motor Home site, this Valley has it all!

This is Mums 23rd Fruit Season and Ruby and I have been fortunate to have spent our whole lives growing up in this wonderful area.

Some words to describe our Mother are as follows:

Witty
Kind
Faithful
Strong
Caring
Rational
Thoughtful
Honest

A year and a half ago, our world turned upside-down when Dad died totally unexpectedly on Xmas Eve, at the very beginning of the 2011/2012 Fruit Season.
Fruit needed to be picked, packed and sold, so life had to go on.

Mum’s strength of character shined through as usual as she reassured us we would make it through this terrible grief. We can’t describe the pain we felt as we knew our world had changed forever.

Our mother had to deal with the fact that not only had she lost her husband of twenty years; our father; but she had lost her business partner as well.
Mum and Dad were a team.
They were a ‘we’ and now she was an ‘I’.
Her first thoughts after Dad died were not of herself but of us.

She sat us down and said that the only way to survive this ordeal was to talk and cry our way through the rawness of it. And she was there to listen any time of the day or night. And talk and cry is what we did.
Knowing that Dad wasn’t going to walk through the door ever again was overwhelming at times. There were many “crash and burn” moments.

But throughout the months of horrendous grief and times of uncertainty, Mum was our rock.
Thank you Mum for being such a wonderful Mother.

We love you dearly.
Love from your family.
Sam, Ruby & Aunty Belle