MacNut Macadamias
New Product in Rodney
www.macnut.co.nz
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What you should know about MacNut Macadamias
MacNuts produce a wide range of macadamia products , which can be ordered online, or purchased at discounted prices from the on site cafe, just minutes from Helensville and 45 minute drive from Auckland. Learn about macadamia cultivation, history, and nutrition at our Nut Information section. Guests are free to wander on our graded paths around the tranquil lakes and orchard. You can see the picking, cracking and preparation of the macadamia products during weekdays
Mt Warning, New South Wales home of the macadamia nut The macadamia is the only major commercial food crop that is native to Australia.
Ferdinand Von Muller, Royal Botanist at Melbourne and Walter Hill, Director of the Botany Garden at Brisbane, were botanizing in the forest along the Pine River in the Moreton Bay district of Queensland. This species did not fit into any previously established genera in that family, so in 1858 Muller established a new genus, Macadamia, naming it in honor of John Macadam, MD, Secretary of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria. Of course, the British weren’t the first inhabitants of Australia. Their food consisted mainly of fish, shellfish, turtle eggs, grubs of certain tree bark insects, kangaroo, koala, wombat, bandicoot, other small animals and birds, plus yams, and grass seeds.
However, during the months of fall and winter March to June , they would come from far and near to congregate on the eastern slopes of the Great Divide Range. The first large planting of Macadamias occurred in 1890 on the Frederickson Estate at Rous Mill, New South Wales. Interestingly, the largest single planting of macadamia trees is on 3,700 acres in Komatipoort, South Africa. Planting began at what is now MacNut Farms in 1980 under the management of Neil Whitehead, with the orchard starting to produce commercial quantities in 1989.
Neil continued as manager until 1997, supervising the development of NZ’s largest orchard at 10,500 trees spread over 105 acres. Most Australian and Hawaiian species drop their nuts, allowing for a cheaper ground harvest
Mt Warning, New South Wales home of the macadamia nut The macadamia is the only major commercial food crop that is native to Australia.
Ferdinand Von Muller, Royal Botanist at Melbourne and Walter Hill, Director of the Botany Garden at Brisbane, were botanizing in the forest along the Pine River in the Moreton Bay district of Queensland. This species did not fit into any previously established genera in that family, so in 1858 Muller established a new genus, Macadamia, naming it in honor of John Macadam, MD, Secretary of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria. Of course, the British weren’t the first inhabitants of Australia. Their food consisted mainly of fish, shellfish, turtle eggs, grubs of certain tree bark insects, kangaroo, koala, wombat, bandicoot, other small animals and birds, plus yams, and grass seeds.
However, during the months of fall and winter March to June , they would come from far and near to congregate on the eastern slopes of the Great Divide Range. The first large planting of Macadamias occurred in 1890 on the Frederickson Estate at Rous Mill, New South Wales. Interestingly, the largest single planting of macadamia trees is on 3,700 acres in Komatipoort, South Africa. Planting began at what is now MacNut Farms in 1980 under the management of Neil Whitehead, with the orchard starting to produce commercial quantities in 1989.
Neil continued as manager until 1997, supervising the development of NZ’s largest orchard at 10,500 trees spread over 105 acres. Most Australian and Hawaiian species drop their nuts, allowing for a cheaper ground harvest
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