Coaldale Walnuts’ family-friendly picking event next weekend helps cut down on waste
Sharing the love of walnuts through a family-friendly events also helps a Richmond farm cut down on waste. Everything you need to know about Coaldale Walnuts’ picking weekend.
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While strawberry and grape harvests might be over, it’s only the beginning for the sweet and humble walnut.
Tasmanians can pick their very own creamy walnuts from Coaldale Walnuts generational orchard which has 1500 walnut trees spanning 30 acres next weekend.
“Every year we open up the gates for people to come in and get their own walnuts from the orchard,” owner Sophie Milic said.
“After we finished harvesting, there’s still plenty of nuts here that we can’t harvest so it’s ensuring that we don’t have a waste product.”
Ms Milic said the popular event is great for kids to go on a “treasure hunt” looking for walnuts under trees and around the grass.
“We find that people just really love coming and experiencing where their food comes from, and being able to collect fresh produce that’s local,” she said.
“People are often surprised if they’ve only had walnuts from the supermarket before which are very often from California, that there’s actually a sweet creamy flavour from fresh local walnuts, which is partly to do with the Tassie growing conditions being a bit cooler.
“They’re versatile, great for snacking and they’re so healthy, being high in protein and omega threes.
“But they go really well in salads, on cheese boards, in sweet baked things and then in our walnuts vegetarian sausage rolls and it actually tastes just like normal sausage rolls.”
The ticketed event will also have a food van selling coffee and sweet treats made with local ingredients including the walnuts.
“We’re encouraging people to bring their own baskets and buckets and we weigh them on the way in and they pick up however much they want and then we weigh on the way out,” Ms Milic said.
The farm’s walnut picking event will be held from Friday May 3 until Sunday May 5.
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