Chestnut Brae will be cooking hot local Nannup chestnuts, selling fresh chestnuts and chestnut products at Mt Claremont Farmers Market on Saturday 1st June, 15th June, 29th June and 27 July 2019. Come along and say hello to Tristan and get your local Nannup fresh...
Chestnut Brae will be cooking hot chestnuts, selling fresh chestnuts and chestnut products at Growers Green Farmers Market this Sunday 2 June 2019. Address is Lefroy Rd, Beaconsfield WA 6162. Market opens at 8am and closes at 12 noon. Come along for chestnuts while...
Chestnut Brae are highlighted on the Balthazar Restaurant page as part of their feature dish for Buy West Eat Best Plating Up WA campaign: https://www.platingupwa.com.au/venues/balthazar The Mont Blanc they have made looks totally...
Chestnut Brae will be selling chestnuts at Growers’ Green Farmers’ Market in Lefroy Rd, Beaconsfield WA on Sunday morning 19 May 2019 from 8AM – 12 NOON – FREMANTLE COLLEGE , (FORMERLY SOUTH FREMANTLE HIGH SCHOOL). Come along on Sunday to get...
Chestnut has been called the Bread Tree – it has a been staple in the diet for people all over the world for thousands of years. It is a very high quality food source, with the nutritional makeup of a grain, yet grows on a tree, without annual tillage of the soil, and...
Chestnuts were present in North America during the Eocene Epoch, beginning over 50 Million years ago. During the Pleistocene Ice Age 18,000 years ago, chestnut was pushed south as the temperate forests retreated to the warmer climate near the Gulf of Mexico. As the...
Asia is the largest producer and consumer of chestnuts in the world. The use of chestnuts as food over 9,000 years ago in Japan is documented in carbonized nuts found in ancient villages. Recent programs have mandated the large-scale establishment of chestnut orchards...
Chestnuts appear in the fossil record over 85 Million years ago, in North America, Europe and Asia. The 13 existing species of the chestnut genus all inter-hybridize readily, indicating that they are not highly differentiated from the parent species. EUROPE The...
The chestnut is the most useful tree in the world. There are 4 major species – American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) European Chestnut (C. sativa) Chinese Chestnut (C. mollissima) Japanese Chestnut (C. crenata) and 9 less important species of the genus Castanea in the...
Chestnut Brae will be attending: Joondalup Growers Market on 12th May Kalamunda Farmers Market on 13th May Manjimup Farmers Market on 19th May Gidgegannup Small Farm Field Day on 27th May Manjimup Farmers Market on 2nd June Truffle Kerfuffle on 23rd and 24th June The...
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