NZ Walnut Chatzone

Walnut Orchard For Sale

Graeme — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:31:54 +0000

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

Graeme — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:16:21 +0000

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

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-43.647711,172.452702&num=1&sll=-43.617867,172.423014&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&ie=UTF8&ll=-43.646883,172.452307&spn=0.028445,0.055189&z=14

Graeme

New Walnut Letter

Graeme — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:22:09 +0000

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

Graeme — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:31:25 +0000

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

Graeme — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:28:48 +0000

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

Graeme — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:27:06 +0000

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

Graeme — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:14:11 +0000

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

Graeme — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:03:13 +0000

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.

In 2008 our first winner, Ngaroma Ngata of Tolaga Bay, took home the winner’s trophy and a runners up certificate.

Jan MacKenzie, of Christchurch, with her ‘Jan’s Jungle’ pickled walnuts

was the other runner-up.

Overall there were 23 entries forwarded from all parts of New Zealand.

The second Grand Pickled Walnut Competition

run by the New Zealand Walnut Industry Group

is to be held in conjunction with the

New Zealand Tree Crops Association’s National Conference

to be held at the Sudima Hotel, Christchurch, Canterbury

Thursday 25^th – Sunday 28^th March 2010

A special dinner on Friday 26^th March as part of ‘Taste of Canterbury’

will feature the Pickled Walnut Competition entries and the winners will be presented with their awards.

The judge for this event is well known food writer and food identity, Mavis Airey, who will speak at the ‘Taste of Canterbury’ dinner and present the awards.

Entry Form

Entry form and competition information is also available on

the NZTCA Conference 2010 website www.treecrops.org.nz

Working Be – 9 August

Graeme — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:12:51 +0000

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

Graeme — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:30:02 +0000

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.