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in Australia's National Capital where, during the apple season, you can drive through our orchard to our apple shop, and buy freshly-picked fruit.

Because we pick and sell our fruit when it is at its peak there are times when we sell out and are, temporarily, closed. See below for the current situation and what we are selling.

We are NOT a pick-it-yourself orchard.

CLOSED

2024 Season

We are struggling to control rainbow lorikeets in our orchard. In 2023 they arrived half-way though the season and ate the remaining crop. This year they began attacking the crop from the start of the season. At this stage it's unclear if and/or when we'll be able to open.

Updated 24 February 2024

 

Pialligo
Pialligo, where Kerrison's Orchard is located, is a semi-rural area barely 5 kilometres from Australia's Parliament House.

It is one of the earliest European-settled areas of Australia. Robert Campbell settled in Pialligo in 1825 - only 38 years after the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney (and 13 years before Queanbeyan was established). Robert Campbell was a merchant and a politician - a member of the first NSW Legislative Council. He named his property Duntroon after his family estate in Scotland.

In 1911 the property became the site of the Royal Military College - (established on the recommendation of Lord Kitchener).

In the 1930s, under the Burley Griffin plan, land was released in Pialligo for small horticultural enterprises to serve Canberra. (Griffin talked about 'truck farms').

Today Pialligo has orchards, retail nurseries, vineyards, horses, peacocks. Few residents and no kerbs or gutters. Lots of birds - a pleasant place to live (and to visit - tens of thousands of people from Canberra and elsewhere come to Pialligo every year). For more history see: The Early History of the ACT

Growing Apples
Customers often ask us about growing and caring for apple trees. Click on Grow Your Own for what we tell them. 

Kerrison's Orchard
5 Beltana Rd
Pialligo ACT 2609
Email ken@kerrisonsorchard.com.au

Phone 02 6257 4460 (but we are farmers and email is best).

Last Updated: 24 Feb, 2024