Thursday, October 27, 2011
Well, the 2011 hazelnut crop has been harvested and is drying nicely in bins since Mid September. This was our largest harvest, with total yield in the tons… total yet to be determined…. With four people picking, it only took 5 days to harvest everything. Timing of the harvest is critical in order to maximize harvest while minimizing labor time.
The bins of hazels that you see here aren’t the complete harvest. In fact, the bins are now stacked triple-high. They’re dried down nicely and they await the arrival of the new-and-improved husker-cleaner-sorter-separator being manufactured by Pendragon Fabrication in eastern, WI.
