Recipes
Recipe: Roast beetroot, feta and pickled walnut salad
Pickled walnuts lend their spiced vinegary flavour to balance sweet roast root vegetables and salty feta cheese in this hearty salad.
Events
Coaldale Walnuts open farm 6-8 May 2022
Come and pick your own fresh walnuts from our orchard and enjoy a lovely autumn day on the farm in the picturesque Coal Valley. Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 May: 10am to 4pm … rain, hail or shine! 321 Prossers Rd, Richmond, Tasmania Bring a basket or bucket for collecting nuts and a
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New-season walnuts available mid-May
We’re getting lots of enquiries already about new-season walnuts – it’s great to know that everyone is looking forward to fresh walnuts as much as we are! We’ll harvest from early April through to early May, so we should have new-season walnuts dried, graded and available for sale from mid-May. You will be able to
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Seconds walnuts available for parrot food
Looking for a nutritious treat for your parrots? The very small walnuts that are too fiddly to open (even our cracking machine doesn’t like them much) are perfect for birds. This is also a way we save the small nuts from going to waste. According to Pet Keen, the high protein in walnuts makes them
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Postage for online orders now more sustainable
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
Products
New variety: Vina walnuts
Coaldale Walnuts is now stocking a new variety of walnuts called Vina. Also grown in the Coal River Valley, these nuts have a deeper amber colour, with the same rich flavour and crunchy texture as our Chandler and Franquette varieties. This means we’ll have a longer supply of nuts throughout the year – great news
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Second generation joins Coaldale Walnuts family business
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
Recipes
Recipe: Walnut ‘sausage’ rolls
Thank you to Madeleine, who came along to our open weekend and shared with us this exquisite recipe for vegetarian walnut ‘sausage’ rolls. These were a hit with our whole family – kids and meat-lovers included! They are super-simple to make, hold together really well and are surprisingly filling. And incredibly yummy! Well worth a
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Coaldale open weekend goes nuts
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
Orchard
Harvest 2021 wrap up
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