Home Grown Almonds Blog

Wow, it has been a busy week and a half!  Since my last post, when we knocked the almond trees, we’ve been working like mad in the orchard getting ready to actually harvest, pick up the nuts off the ground!
After knocking the nuts off the Nonpareil trees (every other row), the first thing I needed [...]

It’s finally here!  Today we “knocked” the first variety of almond trees.

The process of shaking the almond trees is still referred to as knocking because before the days of big machines, the trees were literally knocked by hand with rubber mauls.
The actually knocking/shaking of the trees goes pretty quickly.  Each tree is shaken for only [...]

We’re just a couple days away from “knocking” the first variety of trees.  The nonpareil almonds are dried enough so we can shake them off the trees.  They will finish drying on the ground before we sweep them up and harvest them.
My boys have been helping me get the orchard ready for the shakers and [...]