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 …
We’re sad to say we won’t be able to have our annual farm open day this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We did consider going ahead with strict social distancing measures in place, but the latest government restrictions mean it’s just not possible. And the last thing we want to do is to put …
Everything is coming to life in the Coaldale Walnuts orchard as the trees finally come out of their winter dormancy and put on a beautiful show of spring growth. Here are some photos – from afar the trees still don’t look very impressive but closer up you can see the lovely coppery new foliage and …
It’s harvest time! We have been busy at Coaldale Walnuts over the past few weeks, harvesting and processing our 2019 crop. We wait for the nuts to fall on the ground before sweeping them up with our harvester and taking them back to the processing shed for cleaning and then drying in specialised bins with …
Fresh walnuts on their way as Coaldale harvest winds up Read More »
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.
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
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 …
For many years we have used an orchard floor management system where we mow the inter-row grass and throw it sideways under the trees for mulch and to suppress the weeds. We had been thinking of reducing our carbon footprint by reducing the mowing and using sheep to keep the grass down, as well as …
We recently installed a pair of electrostatic moisture monitoring probes in the orchard. These will allow us to capture the data on our iPhones and download it to our computers so we can better understand our water usage and plan our irrigation consumption more efficiently. Josh from Serve-Ag installed the equipment and is getting it …
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 …