Product Quality Standards
We are passionate about only delivering premium quality products to our customers. To assure that end we have standards in Growing, Processing, Packaging and Distribution that we work to maintain.
Growing
Care for environment is an important part of our quality standards. While we are not accredited as organic we are focussed on building soil organic levels and biodiversity in the soil. We estimate that we are capturing around 6t of carbon each year and storing this in our soil profile.
No chemicals are sprayed onto our trees. Insects such as aphids are controlled naturally by Ladybugs and birds.
One of our objectives is to eliminate need for nitrogen additives by encouraging growth of clovers under our trees. A solid stand of clover will capture around 200kg/ha of nitrogen, more than sufficient to feed our trees.
We graze sheep under our trees during the winter to cycle nutrients and help control weeds.
Processing
Storage – Hazelnuts store very well for long periods of time in their shells. We keep our hazelnuts in their shells and in a cool storage (around 10 degrees) to assure quality is retained.
Batch processing – traceability and record keeping
Grading
Cracking
Roasting
Paste production
Testing
Packaging
New packaging
Heat sealed for freshness and product security
Packaging designed to be resealed after opening to help extend the life of the product
Packed to orders
Distribution
We use AusPost to deliver our product to our customers.
Tracking of packages