A connoisseur's approach to walnuts
Walnuts are available year-round, but the most traditional season for their consumption is late fall and winter, particularly around Christmas and New Year's. We're lucky that Rancho La Viña, a remnant of the walnut groves that once covered Southern California, sells high-quality nuts and oil at local farmers markets.
The ranch, owned by the Baer family since 1869, grows 185 acres of walnuts in the Santa Rita Hills, between Lompoc and Buellton in Santa Barbara County, prime wine country. Read more here at David Karp's weekly Market Watch report.
Photo credit: David Karp / For The Times
YES! Good to see the Walnut Grove in Santa Barbara County, again. Forty
years ago we took our two children there to pick up walnuts on the ground.
We used their buckets. For every two buckets we picked up, we left one for
the owner and dumped the other into grocery bags to take home and shell.
That was the 'deal' .... We live in Florida now, but our children moved back
to California and live in the greater L.A. area!!!
Thanks for the Memories!!! They were great ones!!
Posted by: Rose | January 02, 2010 at 01:05 PM