At Coaldale Walnuts, we’re serious about sustainability, and it’s time to turn our attention to our post packaging for online orders. We are on our way to using completely home compostable packaging and if you’ve ordered recently, you may have received your parcel in a home-compostable and re-useable post-pack. We’d love any feedback about the …
Coaldale Walnuts is now officially a multi-generation family business, with Phil and Jane’s daughter Sophie and son-in-law Brad becoming business partners this month. Phil and Jane are excited to have new skills and energy in the business as it continues to grow. It also allows them to work towards a well-earned retirement with the knowledge …
Second generation joins Coaldale Walnuts family business Read More »
A huge thank you to all the people who came along to our open weekend on 8-9 May – together you collected around 1300kg of walnuts from the orchard! We loved meeting everyone, talking walnuts all weekend and hearing some new recipes we can’t wait to try. If you missed out, we now have in-shell …
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.
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
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.
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.)
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 …
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 …
Open Weekend – 13 & 14 May – Pick your own Walnuts Read More »
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 …