Walnut Orchard For Sale

Producing Walnut Orchard For Sale – Rare Opportunity: Canterbury NZ

The owners of “Adisham Grove”, Ray and Yvonne Morgan, have reluctantly decided to sell their orchard. Find out more….

Working bee

Hi good nutters
We would welcome your assistance at a working bee this Sunday (15th) at the Lincoln University walnut trial block for our annual clean-up and pruning. If you need directions please email me. Meet at the block from 10am; bring pole pruner, loppers, pruning saw etc. The gate at the west end will be unlocked: see google map here

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Graeme

New Walnut Letter

Nick Nelson Parker has launched a newsletter to put walnut growers in touch with the industry, and get people to talk about walnuts. At the moment this is run as an email distribution. If you would like to receive a copy, email Nick at treees(at)xtra.co.nz – just substitute the right symbol for the ‘at’.

Speaker only option announced – NZ Tree Crops Conference

Registrations for the forthcoming conference are building up well with currently 113 registrations in before the end of February.

At a recent meeting it was suggested that as many Canterbury Branch members have previously visited the the properties on the field visit programme, it would be a good idea to offer ‘speaker only’ options.  Download the information here.  Please read carefully, and if you wish to attend fill in the form on the other side of this page and return to the NZTCA Conference Office.

Attendance is by ticket only – no door sales as numbers are required for meals and morning teas.

If you wish to invite friends to the speaker programme they are most welcome.

2010 NZ Tree Crops Conference

Don’t forget to register for this year’s Tree Crops conference in Christchurch at the end of March.  It is likely to be the biggest conference about tree crops and particularly nuts for a decade.  It features international walnut researcher, Professor David McNeil and other high quality speakers.  Programme and registration details on the conference website.

Cultivar import update

We have more news and latest photos of the cultivar trees that we imported from Tasmania on our website …here. The trees are growing well.

Graeme

Cultivars Arrive in NZ

Our consignment of walnut trees from Tasmania to begin our new cultivar trial successfully received biosecurity clearance from MAF Biosecurity at Auckland Airport on Friday, which is a great result. To follow their progress and check the story to date, go to our special page … here.

Grand NZ Pickled Walnut Competition

Get ready to pick those green walnuts soon if you are wishing to enter the second Grand New Zealand Pickled Walnut Competition to be judged during March 2010.

Working Be – 9 August

We will be doing a winter clean up at the Lincoln trial block this Sunday – 10.30am.  It is basically pruning work.  It would be great to have a good team of workers there.  Please bring pruning equipment: saws, pole pruners, loppers.  See the map of how to get there on the Events web page.

If the weather is very bad, check this page for up-dates.

Graeme

Follow the Cultivar Import Project

New on the NZWIG Website is a section providing the background and updates on the cultivar importation project.  We intend to keep the pages up to date with progress through the years so that growers can take an interest in how the selections are doing.

Check it out — here.