 
The week before Hoes Down, in addition to all the general prep, we also harvested our walnuts!
We grow 12 acres of walnuts. These are large, beautiful old trees that were on the property when the farm was purchased in the 1980s. As a result, they don’t include newer varieties (like Chandler, which currently makes up about a third of all walnuts grown in CA) and the trees are more spaced out, and larger than more recently planted, high-density orchards. Most of our trees are Serr with some Tehama and Hartley.
How do you harvest walnuts? The short answer is, we shake them off the tree. The entire process is a bit longer though: [Read more…]
