Orchard

Two walnuts on a tree. One still has the green husk around it and the other's husk is peeling off, showing the perfect walnut shell inside.

Harvest 2021 wrap up

We have just finished our harvest for this season and the nuts are looking great. When we harvest we do several passes through our 1,500-tree orchard with our little harvester, collecting the nuts that have fallen naturally to the ground. We then wash the nuts, remove any green husks that are still attached, do a …

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We are out of Fresh Nuts!

We have reached that stage in the season when our supply of fresh nuts has run out. We will not have any fresh nuts now until our next harvest in April/May 2017. Please contact us then for any orders for fresh nuts and kernel. We still have plentiful supplies of pickled walnuts.  

Season Coming to a Close – Supply exhausted

Unfortunately, we are now out of walnuts in shell. We will not be able to fill any orders during September. Please contact us again in October if your wish to place an order as the situation may have changed by then.   Thanks you for your patience.   Phil and Jane Dening

Harvest is over!

We completed harvest in the first week of May and we have been busy filling orders since then. Harvest was good because quality was high after the dry summer. However, with the drought and reduced water allocation in our irrigation scheme, quantity was down. Overall we are pleased though and the final result is better …

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Wildlife in the Orchard

We’ve always been happy to have native animals able to access the orchard, as long as they don’t cause too much damage. We have bandicoots, potoroos and pademelons in the orchard most nights and brushtail possums during the harvest season (they don’t take many nuts). Jane saw a platypus down at the river a few …

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