Organic Macadamia Nut Industry in Australia: From Farm to Mouth

[@joendyanabanginixon]

Lovely interview....watching from uganda east africa...very inspiring..as a upcoming macadamia farmer...

[@vitalveda108]

Cool! report back how you go.

[@Karl_Degraa]

Thanks for sharing this. We are setting up a small maca orchard & will try to go organic. So its good to hear about farming this way.

[@vitalveda108]

awesome, please keep us posted! [e-mail]

[@tz6323]

It's fantastic to listen to the conversation, i would like to hear more about the organic fertilizer you are using please. thanks

[@brucechester3491]

My best results are achieved with chicken manure applied liberally during flowering period for a good balanced input to feed the trees. Every 2-3 years basalt dust in a smaller chip than aggregate size. This is to remineralise the soil and also serves to aerate the soil as the chips work their way downward it minimises natural soil compaction. Your soil test will let you know if your soil needs boron (which is irregular). As a general rule any fertiliser ending in "ate" has been washed through acid e.g potassium sulphate, etc. This is done to increase immediate absorption but the downside is that your input is readily leached leaving you on a treadmill, which is great for the fertiliser manufacturer and lousy for the farm creating an addiction to achieve a PH balance while being dependent on adding acid washed N,P, K in a formulated ratio...unnatural! Mulch, mowing leaf drop and grass directionally under the trees as well as compost are essential and natural additions that allow an environment for natural process.......Hope this helps🙃

[@tz6323]

@@brucechester3491 thanks a million!

[@benjamindejonge3624]

It’s good to to see undergrowth on this plantation, nowadays unheard of

[@mikekasoola3134]

Very good interview. Where can I sell my organically grown macadamia? I'm based in Uganda

[@lyntelfer7637]

Where can I buy the face oil please, based in NZ.

[@laonongtrendinhdk]

tôi đang trồng mắc mac lấy giống từ úc. tôi ở việt nam . trồng theo hướng hữu cơ, cây phát triển tốt cho năng xuất chất lượng. cám ơn chia sẻ của bạn

[@zuditaka]

Why aren't macadamia nuts marketed in Australia as "bush tucker" which is what they have been for tens of thousands of years? Just because they are popular all over the world and grown in plantations in Hawaii and South Africa doesn't mean that they are not a traditional Australian bush tucker food. I notice that they are not promoted as a bushtucker food, even though they are sold all over Australia. Macadamia nuts are an Australian heritage food eaten by our First Nations people and new settlers as well. They are bush tucker!

[@vitalveda108]

I agree! We should also explore wild maccas more

[@cathford363]

We are a relatively large macadamia property; we were AA grade organic for 10 years- and had to stop. There is more to this story

[@vitalveda108]

Sorry to hear Cath and thanks for sharing, I would love to hear more of the story 🙏

[@janvanaardt3773]

Maybe the market will only be good till other places start growing macadamias

[@wildforestorganics7298]

Macadamias are a scurge of the Northern Rivers region. There's less than 0.3% of the original rainforest left. The entire place is sprayed multiple times a year with a cocktail of chemicals including Paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide and Bulldock, a broad spectrum synthetic insecticide.

[@brucechester3491]

And I thought that ignorance was supposed to be blissful WildForest....at least you can name a couple of chemicals to denigrate. "The entire place is sprayed multiple times a year..." sums up a lack of truthful quality and vast reserves of ignorance that are intended to deceive🥸. Incidentally you may find that cedar-cutters and pasture farming account for the 99.7% of the rainforest destruction that you have parlayed. Macadamias (bopple nuts) grow naturally in rainforests, generally favouring the southern side.

[@wildforestorganics7298]

@@brucechester3491 Just because our grandfathers were ignorant enough to cut down and burn all the trees doesn't mean we shouldn't put some of them back. Macadamias grow in diverse subtropical rainforests, not in monocultures. There's no reason we can't plant macadamias in diverse polycultures and negate the need for most pesticides and herbicides. There needs to be incentives for farmers to conserve ecosystem functions rather than maximising profits.

[@brucechester3491]

Since the 1970's macadamia cropping in the Northern Rivers has replaced the grass paddocks previously used by the dairy industry with tree crops. Bush nuts grow and reproduce naturally in diverse subtropical regions. Economics is the sole reason that macadamias (cross-bred bush nuts that were selectively bred to retain qualities suitable for commercial production) are grown as a monoculture along with almost every other crop grown or raised commercially. Ideally, mulching , a naturally occurring phenomenon in rainforests, and careful soil care negate herbicide use...for 33 years now. Predator populations help alleviate insect crop damage. The methodology behind pesticide usage has led to an unnecessary dependency by large commercial operations portrayed as "best practice" science....unfortunately. My day-to-day incentive to provide a good ecosystem is that I live here. Profit and it's maximisation is a different argument altogether.....GREED🤑 !!!

[@paulfri1569]

Bundaberg is the real macadamia nut capital..

[@ivenkateshreddy1438]

I want to go in macadamia plant I want more information Your provide the framer mobile number

[@girishkc-mf7ew]

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