Online Orders are back in full swing
We are back from leave, having spent a relaxing month travelling around Victoria and S.A. Please feel free to order any products as we have plenty of stock.
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Online Orders Suspended
Online orders are suspended from 11/7/2017 to 6/8/2017 while we are away on leave. We apologise for any inconvenience but we cannot fill orders when we are away. You may order as per usual but your money will sit there with no action until we return. Alternatively, please place your order after 6/8/2017. Thank you
New Season’s Kernel available
We have nearly finished commissioning our new cracking line and we have been very pleased with the quality of the kernel coming out. It should be fully operational within the week. However we are selling kernel now. Feel free to order online.
Open Farm Day was a Great Success
The weather was fine, especially on Saturday and people came out to pick their walnuts with great enthusiasm. Some of Jane’s workmates were really into the spirit of the day! (Sorry about the lack of colour – not my photos.)
New Walnut Cracking Line to Open Soon
Coaldale Walnuts is further moving into value-adding with the recent purchase of a sophisticated cracking line from AMB Rousset in France. We will commence setting up and commissioning the new line in our purpose-built cracking room during the second half of May, as soon as we complete harvesting. The new line comprises 5 machines which …
Open Weekend – 13 & 14 May – Pick your own Walnuts
We are opening our orchard to the public on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May and invite you to pick your own walnuts at half price (i.e., $5/kg) This is a great opportunity for the family to have fun picking a healthy product in the countryside and learn something from the farmer about how walnuts …
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Fresh Season Nuts Available
It’s been a great season and we have nearly finished bringing in a very good crop. Nuts are larger than last year, flavour is great and we have probably gone close to tripling what we harvested last year (not a great year, though, with the drought). We have a new grading machine imported from …
Spring 2014
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 …
Happy Customer!
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 …
Latest Update on the 2014 Crop
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 …