An exceptional horticultural portfolio comprising six premium apple and pear orchards, state-of-the-art packing and cold storage infrastructure, and a vertically integrated marketing business is being presented to the market by LAWD.
Strategically located in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley, Project Brooklyn is a large-scale 216-hectare aggregation, including 97.1ha of apple orchards, 83.1ha of pear orchards, and the balance comprising infrastructure and unplanted land.
The portfolio features one of Australia’s largest plantings of the globally recognised BravoTM apple variety.
With a strategic focus on high-value proprietary varieties, more than 20 per cent of the orchard area is planted to Bravo™, a premium apple variety developed from Cripps Red and Royal Gala apples. As one of only a limited number of licensed growers and packers in Australia, Project Brooklyn offers a rare opportunity to participate in the growth of a premium branded fruit category.
All orchards are located within a 10-kilometre radius of the central packing facilities, enabling rapid turnaround from harvest to cold storage. Annual production averages approximately 5,600 tonnes of apples and 5,200t of pears, servicing both domestic and export markets.
The business supplies a blue-chip customer base, including major supermarkets, wholesalers, distributors and retailers along Australia’s East Coast, as well as established export markets.
All orchards and the packing facility are managed in-house by an experienced management team and supported by a team of five full-time orchard staff and eight full-time packing facility staff. During peak operational periods such as harvest, pruning and planting, up to 50 additional workers are engaged annually through a long-standing local labour hire provider.
Water security underpins operations
Operations are supported by a substantial, diversified water portfolio totalling 2,012 megalitres of high and low reliability Greater Goulburn water entitlements sourced from the main eastern channel system of the Goulburn River. The orchards are irrigated via locational pump sites, utilising the efficiencies of automated microjet sprinkler systems, which are highly efficient and designed to optimise water usage.
The portfolio also benefits from a favourable climate and an average annual rainfall of 482.2mm.
Turnkey opportunity with growth potential
LAWD Corporate Advisory Senior Director, Jaclyn Hope, said Project Brooklyn is being offered on a walk-in-walk-out basis, with an extensive suite of plant and equipment, representing a rare turnkey investment.
“Project Brooklyn provides the incoming purchaser with direct access to a large-scale, professionally managed horticultural enterprise, underpinned by high-quality land and water assets, as well as a vertically integrated marketing business supplying Australia’s leading retailers and international customers,” Ms Hope said.
“The portfolio presents significant upside through the acquisition of further land, expansion of BravoTM plantings, technological upgrades, increased export volumes, expansion of cold storage capacity and value-add of lower-grade fruit.”
Investment in infrastructure and sustainability
Significant capital investment has been made in advanced packing and cold storage infrastructure to deliver market-leading performance. The 13,234sqm packing facility is equipped with a pre-sizing grader, two grading packing systems for apples and pears, and an integrated pre-packing line.
Adjacent storage facilities include 14 Dynamic Controlled Atmosphere and two finished product cool rooms, complemented by an additional secondary site of 18 cool rooms, providing total refrigerated and controlled atmosphere capacity for approximately 20,000 bins of produce.
A two-hundred-kilowatt solar system has been installed across the roofs of the main and secondary cold storage sites to help reduce energy costs and lower grid reliance. The sites are supported by favourable long-term electricity supply agreements until 2028.
Sustainable farming practices, including Integrated Pest Management (IPM), are employed throughout all the orchard sites with approximately 67ha protected by drape, gable or fixed-style netting, providing protection from undesirable weather events.
Fruit quality and yield have been enhanced by utilising tree training and trellis systems such as Tatura V, Open Tatura and Central Leader over a combined orchard area of approximately 88ha.
Strategic location supports operations
Project Brooklyn is located just 4km from Shepparton, a major agricultural services hub, and is strategically positioned between Melbourne (164km) and Sydney (595km). Direct access to the Goulburn Valley and Hume Highways provides efficient links to domestic and export supply chains.
Project Brooklyn is being offered for sale by Expression of Interest closing at 12pm (AEDT) Thursday, 5 March 2026. For more information, contact LAWD Corporate Advisory Senior Director, Jaclyn Hope on +61 424 596 858, or LAWD Associate Director, Georgia Hole on +61 433 697 926.
