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 […]
We had our last market at Farm Gate Market yesterday and sold out of everything, except pickled walnuts! We have no more nut-in-shell and no more kernel till next harvest in May 2016. Thank you to everyone who has visited us at Farm Gate Market and thank you for your wonderful feedback. As humble walnut
Come along to our farm open weekend and collect your own walnuts straight from our orchard. Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 May 2015, 10am to 4pm. Coaldale Walnuts, 321 Prossers Rd, Richmond, Tasmania. Bring your own bucket, walnuts $5 per kilo.
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.
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
