Chestnut Brae were very fortunate to have the team from Today Tonight ask if they could come to Chestnut Brae to film a story about chestnuts during harvest season. We have some visitors doing PYO (Pick Your Own) and we had some volunteers picking chestnuts at...
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...
We have always wanted to save the world, we did not realize the one of the answers was sweet chestnuts. This latest research shows we are doing the right thing. Click on the link to read the entire...
Chestnut Brae are the 2017 winners of the Regional Achievement and Community Awards -Harmony Agriculture and Food Co Agricultural Innovation Award.This is one of the most prestigious awards in the agricultural sector in WA and allowed i us to show the judges the...
It is always a great feeling when customers nominate you for awards.This is what happened to Chestnut Brae when we were nominated to be in the West Australian Community and Regional Awards. To then be told we were in the final three from across the State was an even...
It is mid winter on the farm, time to prune the sweet chestnut trees and get ready for the spring. Pruning is essential to allow us to get the harvest equipment into the orchard come autumn. The limbs are pruned using a chain saw and the wounds are sealed to stop...
Having two medals for our beer developed with Blackwood Brewery confirms our thinking that Chestnut Ale is the beer to drink. We first tasted chestnut ale in a little pub in Corsica and realized that this was one of the products we had to develop. To have the beer...
From chestnut ale to chestnut ice-cream and even chestnut-fed pork, Western Australia’s largest producer of chestnuts is appealing to consumers’ tastebuds to raise awareness of the nut. The chestnut is an old-fashioned nut, popular in Europe, Asia...
Nannup business Chestnut Brae is one of 22 finalists in this year’s Telstra WA Business Awards which will be announced on Friday. The theme for this year’s award was building a healthier and smarter future for Western Australians and businesses in the health and...
When we visited Corsica in 2014 to do our research on what could be done with chestnuts, John fell in love with the chestnut ale there and wanted to introduce chestnut ale to Australia. We have been working in partnership with the Blackwood Valley Brewing Company in...
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