We doubled production again this year and this required two two-week cycles of picking, brining and cooking. We also used a new commercial kitchen located about five minutes from the orchard and this made a huge difference. We purchased three new drying cabinets each capable of drying about 3000 nuts and this greatly improved our […]
We had a warm, moist early spring which is generally bad news for our number one enemy, walnut blight. Blight is a bacterial infection which enters the flower and pollen during rain events and develops through the season to cause unsightly black marks on the green husk and eventually on the shell
The trees lose their leaves in late May and things go quiet for us for a while and then the next round of work starts. First, in August, we prune for new growth in the Spring. This is done with a large tractor wielding a boom saw which prunes every second pair of rows.
Our pickled walnuts triumphed once again by being awarded a GOLD Medal at the Hobart Fine Food Awards last month in the Savoury Preserves category. This follows the gold medal we were awarded in 2012. There was no suitable category to enter our raw kernel , so we have never been able to benchmark this
I’ve been a bit slow getting back to refresh the website with latest developments but I can tell you we have produced just over 6 tonnes of graded nuts after all the processing and quality control. That isn’t bad but we have several measures in place to improve that next season if the weather gods
I was very chuffed to hear from one of our on-line customers recently, Antonella T from Sydney. After we completed our transaction she got back to me by email and wrote: Thank you ! We purchased some on our recent trip to Tasmania and I now can’t live without them ! THE BEST walnuts
We have a great crop developing after a wet and warm spring. The spring conditions did raise the risk of increased bacterial blight but so far we appear not to have lost many nuts. (walnuts always suffer a bit of blight but it can be devastating under warm and wet spring conditions when the flowers
After a great response last year, we sold out of our gold medal pickled walnuts in October. We have doubled our production this season and the much awaited pickling is ready from 28/2/2014. We are releasing them at Bream Creek Farmers market this weekend and they are also available on line. Wholesale orders are welcome
We had a great day on Sunday 6th November when we went to the Bream Creek Farmers Market for our first time. (http://breamcreekfarmersmarket.wordpress.com) We had our brand new marquee and 3 new products – Fresh Roasted Walnuts, Savoury Roasted Walnuts (garlic, paprika, salt and pepper) and Cinnamon Sugared Roasted Walnuts. We sold out of these lines because
We attended the Slow Food Hobart market which was held at the Open day for the University of Tasmania Radio Telescope at Cambridge on a blowy and rainy Sunday 25 August. There were around 300 to 400 hardy souls touring the site and calling in to sample our fine wares. It was a very interesting
