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 […]
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
After a great response last year, we sold out of our gold medal pickled walnuts in October. We have doubled our production this season and the much awaited pickling is ready from 28/2/2014. We are releasing them at Bream Creek Farmers market this weekend and they are also available on line. Wholesale orders are welcome
We had a great day on Sunday 6th November when we went to the Bream Creek Farmers Market for our first time. (http://breamcreekfarmersmarket.wordpress.com) We had our brand new marquee and 3 new products – Fresh Roasted Walnuts, Savoury Roasted Walnuts (garlic, paprika, salt and pepper) and Cinnamon Sugared Roasted Walnuts. We sold out of these lines because
We attended the Slow Food Hobart market which was held at the Open day for the University of Tasmania Radio Telescope at Cambridge on a blowy and rainy Sunday 25 August. There were around 300 to 400 hardy souls touring the site and calling in to sample our fine wares. It was a very interesting
We just received advice we won a Bronze last weekend! We are very pleased with this. We had entered our vacuum sealed hand-cracked kernel also but the judges withdrew our entry after deciding that by “value adding” (a pre-condition for entry of all products) they really meant cooked or otherwise changed, not adding value to
The simplest way to open a fresh walnut in shell is to use a blunt short blade and press into the wide seam at the round bottom of the nut while twisting the blade at the same time. We have a short video attached to show you how! 20131002-201951.mov
Our Pickled Walnuts won a gold medal at the 2012 Hobart Fine Food Awards. We have entered both the pickled walnuts and our new vacuum sealed kernel this year in the Sydney Royal Fine Food Show. Wish us luck!
