Home Grown Almonds Blog

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 [...]

I absolutely love this time of year, the almond hulls are splitting and exposing the shells inside allowing them to dry and harden.  They start taking on the nutty flavor that we all love so much, and have less of the “green” flavor as they dry out.

William came with me this morning when I went [...]