I love almonds. Love them. By themselves by the handful or carefully laid out in chocolate. (Now I feel like I need a snack break before I can blog anymore. But I will power on.)
I’ve had friends who’s families grow pecans (I am SO SOUTHERN) but almonds are not something we grow down south. And even though I had seen almonds before, I hadn’t had the chance to talk about the basics of growing almonds — that’s where Brent Boersma enters! Brent and his family have the fourth generation Boersma Farms near Ripon, California where they grow several hundred acres of almonds.
Yes, I will have to do a couple of posts about what I saw and learned, but first, I want to show you how the farm looks and how almonds look on the tree. Here’s a shot of one of the farms with beautiful trees lined up.
The hulls on these almonds are still a bit green. As they dry down, they are ready to harvest.
Closeup of almonds showing the hull pulled back from the shell as it dried.
Wow, I´ve never seen Almond trees! Very beautiful photos! I love Almonds, too!
Thanks so much for linking up!
Greetings from Germany,
Verena
Thanks for coming! I was amazed too! So beautiful and hen in clumps on the trees, such snacking goodness! Thanks for coming by & linking up!
Its so nice seeing this!we make different kind of brand products of Almond ,I am fascinated.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the almonds and harvest time.
Exactly! I lucked into the perfect time of year to be there! Right at harvest!
Very cool indeed!
Here from a retweet on Twitter…
Have a wild and wacky Wednesday!
Thanks for following the link & commenting. Glad you enjoyed the post!
Very cool, I never knew that!
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Cool! When I lived in Oregon I got to see Filbert farms, but not almond ones. I am partial to almonds since my last name is Almon!
Love it! That’s perfect! I’ve not seen filbert trees either… another crop to put on my list. 🙂
Great pictures, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an almond tree before.
That seems to be fairly common it seems from the reaction. I’m glad I thought to capture every minute of my morning. LOL. Have more coming!
My husband is Israeli…I’ll have to show him these because it looks like home 🙂
Oh wow! I was just in Israel this summer for the first time. I got to capture quite a bit of it in photos too — you may be interested in some of the pictures here http://jplovescotton.com/travel-trips/ as I have date palms, etc. 🙂
I love almonds and pecans both. Thanks for sharing this — it’s nice to learn stuff I didn’t know about things I love. Have a not-so-nutty WW….
LOL! Not so nutty! I love them both too!
Almonds are my very favorites–especially when coupled with Hershey’s chocolate. Hope you have a Happy Halloween!
Wow, I have never seen an almond tree. We just have pecan trees, but I love almonds. Thanks for the post! They are lovely on the tree…
It’s cool to see parts of ag that I’m not familiar with. Thanks for sharing, Janice!