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Walnut Farm Tour and 13 Tasty Walnut Recipes

August 30, 2017 by Valerie Mitchell

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Walnut Farm Tour and 13 Tasty Walnut Recipes

Walnut Farm

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Walnut Farm Tour

When I was growing up, walnuts were a special treat.

Naturally, I jumped at the chance to go on a walnut farm tour.

My mother used a handheld walnut grinder and then added walnuts to cookies and brownies that I loved and to fruit cake that I did not love.

I still have her antique grinder and like adding walnuts to desserts, but I also use them for snacking and add them to other recipes, as well.

Walnut Farm

Wood Colony Nut Company is located in Modesto, California.

It’s one of the many family owned walnut farms in the fertile San Joaquin Valley. 

At a glance, it may look like farming is mainly manual labor, but farming takes a whole lot of brain power, too.

Scientific methods are used to make sure that walnut trees get the right amount of water at the right time and are kept disease free.

There are water canals managed by the local water district that run along this orchard.

There is also ground water below.

Since California is just coming out of a drought, water management is on everyone’s mind.

They need to use enough to produce walnuts and other food and are mindful of the bigger water issues.

Since groundwater levels got low during the drought, another factor to consider is how to build that up again.

Walnut Farm

The trees were looking healthy and were full of walnuts when I was there.

It looks like it’s going to be a good year for walnuts.

This farm grows a few different types of walnuts.

Two of them are what we are accustomed to eating.

There are also red walnuts that I’m told are extra buttery and delicious.

They sure are pretty!

Red Walnut

The farm tour was fun and informative.

It takes a whole lot of smarts and good luck with weather and other external factors to get a good crop of walnuts!

Walnut Farm

Walnut Recipe Round Up

Check out the recipes below to enjoy walnuts in new and exciting ways.

Dark Chocolate Walnut Donuts from Strength and Sunshine

Cranberry Walnut Quinoa from Mama Likes To Cook

Cinnamon Walnut Coffee Cake from An Italian In My Kitchen

13 Tasty Walnut Recipes

Grain Free Walnut Granola from I Heart Vegetables

Candied Walnuts from Melanie Cooks

No Bake Maple Walnut Oat Bites from Two Healthy Kitchens

13 Tasty Walnut Recipes

Buttery Walnut Toffee from Joy Filled Eats

Walnut Crescent Cookies from Living Sweet Moments

Walnut Biscotti from Happy Foods Tube

13 Tasty Walnut Recipes

Spinach and Walnut Pesto from Hot Eats and Cool Reads

Walnut Red Pepper Chutney from The Delicious Crescent

Roasted Garlic Walnut Pesto from Cook Eat Paleo

Cranberry Walnut Pinwheels from Mama Likes To Cook

Recipe Round Up of 13 tasty recipes using walnuts

More from Mama Likes To Cook 

Check out the rest of my vegetarian recipes, so you can get more great ideas for baking, cooking, blending and juicing.

California Farm Tours

  • Sweet Potato Joe Farm Tour – Livingston, CA
  • Fiscalini Farmstead Cheese and Dairy Farm Tour – Modesto, CA
  • Walnut Farm – Modesto, California
  • Charles Ahelm Dairy Ranch – Hilmar, CA
  • Avocado Orchard – Irvine, CA
  • Urban Produce Indoor Organic Microgreens – Irvine, CA
  • Brokaw Avocado Nursery Tour – Ventura, CA
  • Rancho Rodoro Avocado Grove – Santa Paula, CA
  • Shield’s Date Garden – Indio, CA
  • SeaView Ranch – Calipatria, CA
  • Lawrence Cox Ranches – Brawley, CA
  • Lester Farms Tour – Winters, CA
  • Lucero Olive Oil Tour – Corning, CA
  • Wil-Ker-Son Kiwi Farm Tour – Gridley, CA
  • Lundberg Family Farms Tour – Richvale, CA

Breweries in California

  • Dust Bowl Brewing in Turlock
  • Peter B’s in Monterey
  • Refuge Brewery in Temecula
  • Kinetic Brewing in Lancaster
  • Coachella Valley Brewing Company in Thousand Palms
  • Karl Strauss in Anaheim
  • Sierra Nevada in Chico

Wineries in California

  • Guglielmo Winery – Santa Clara Wine Trail
  • Fortino Winery – Santa Clara Wine Trail
  • Longoria Winery – Lompoc, CA
  • Acquiesce Winery and Vineyards – Acampo, CA
  • Bokisch Vineyards – Lodi, CA
  • Bernardus Vineyards and Winery – Carmel Valley, CA
  • Holman Ranch Vineyards – Carmel Valley, CA
  • Jarman – Carmel Valley, CA
  • Herzog Winery – Oxnard, CA
  • Akash Winery – Temecula
  • Wilson Creek – Temecula
  • Cambria Winery and Vineyards – Santa Maria
  • Foxen Vineyard and Winery – Santa Maria
  • Nagy Wines – Orcutt, CA
  • Grevino – Orcutt, CA
  • Ojai Vineyard – Ojai, CA
  • Keller Estate Winery – Petaluma, CA
  • Adobe Road – Petaluma, CA

Are you ready to have some delicious fun in the kitchen?

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