Nutty For You Macadamia Orchard Visit July 2026
The club hasn’t had a mid-week run for quite some time so it was good to see that Phil and Margret’s organised run out to the Nutty For You macadamia nut orchard in Waipu was well-supported.
Eleven cars met up in Whangarei at 10.30 ish and travelled through to Waipu where they met up with another member just on 11.00 am. Eric the proprietor gave our group a walk through the rather rustic facilities and explained the background behind the growing, harvesting and process as to how they get to a delicious product all bagged and ready for purchase
Many of the members took the opportunity to take home bags of the various products on display from the onsite shop and I have to say the Lemon and Pepper ones were very nice. I say were as I have managed to demolish a 100g bag in fairly short order.
We then adjourned to the Waipu Golf Club for lunch, and it was doing a brisk trade which is not surprising as the food on offer (all made locally on the premises we were told) was top class.
A good mid-week excursion which I am sure those members attending enjoyed, so a big thanks to Phil and Margaret for getting the mid-week runs back on the board.
Guess there must have been a couple of hundred cars