Mount Roland Hazelnuts

21/12/2023

FAREWELL AND THANK YOU

Hello Friends.
Just a short post to let you know that Mount Roland Hazelnuts is no more.

Sadly, advancing age and ill-health have meant that we are no longer able to continue with the strenuous work involved in running the farm. Instead we are downsizing to a lovely old house on the north coast of Tasmania.

We want to say a huge thank you for your support over the past fifteen years! As Australia's only commercial scale certified-organic hazelnut growers, we have been greatly energised by our customers' appreciation of our hazelnuts. It has been a privilege to grow food for you!

A special big thanks to the lovely folk from the Kentish Garden Club, who have helped with our harvest for the last few years.

It’s been a wonderful journey, shared with so many amazing and beautiful people. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Very best wishes to you all,
Greg and Elizabeth.

11/05/2023

Many people use sheep dogs to move their sheep to fresh grass. But we have the services of a sheep cat! Charlie the wonder cat (and his human, Greg) gently encourage our beautiful sheep to move at their own pace … Very stress-less for everyone 😊

12/04/2023

Phew! After three weeks of hard work our 2023 Harvest is finished. Our biggest ever – two tonnes of beautiful organic hazelnuts!
A huge thank you to our helpers: the Kentish Garden Club, the Wilson family, Marion, Ross, and especially Geoff and our wonderful Dutch workers Jasper and Mellanie. Eli mainly focused on making us laugh … and eating quite a few nuts 😊

31/03/2023

11/11/2022

What a beautiful Spring evening in north-west Tasmania! We feel honoured again to have a gorgeous little mob of Wilti-poll (self-shedding) sheep helping us to keep the grass in check in our hazelnut orchards. Without these gentle, lovely creatures we would have to spend many hours mowing ...

16/06/2022

Those of you not living in Tasmania are probably not aware that the north-west of our state suffered a highly destructive weather event on Sat-Sun, with wind gusts of up to 160 km/hr in places. A human life was lost, and many others severely disrupted.
Thankfully we are OK. We have just had our power restored after five days … trees and power lines were blocking the road into/out of the farm. Also many of our fences have been damaged by falling trees. A lot of chainsawing for Greg to do!
We are certain that many animals and birds have also lost their homes or have been killed.
A sad and devastating event!

24/03/2022

The north orchard harvested! Now just the south orchard to do.
Huge thanks to our wonderful WWOOFERS from Sydney, Eva and Pip - we couldn't have done it without you!
Thanks also to Robert from Cygnet who put in many hours.