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Nic Hansen
Sustainably and Efficiently produce
premium products
Our black
Gold growing world’s best Cherries
“
It’s a richer, deeper blend,
a much more completed product. It’s the result of a long
journey that we’ve been on
for ten years, six of them
seriously .
.”
You ’d b e f o rg i v e n for thinki ng t ha t f o u rt h g e ne ration
f ru i t g ro we r N i c H anse n is
tal ki n g a b o u t a pre mium
w i n e v i n t a g e ! He ’s actually
tal ki n g a b o u t c ompost and
onc e y o u re a l i s e how much
car e , t ho u g ht a nd inve stme nt
goe s i n t o m a ki n g it and the
v e r y s i g n i f i c a n t contribu-
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tion it has made t o Cherries
Tasmania ’s har ves t s , you
unde rs t an d why he s peaks of
it w ith s u c h reveren c e.
amon gs t t he blos s om.
The Cherries Tas man ia su c c es s s t or y is a jou rn ey t ha t
begin s wit h s oil. Goo d so i l
will have a healt hy ba l an c e of fu n gi an d ba c t er i a .
Fis h s ludge is won der f u l a t
feedin g t he fun gi in t he so i l ,
t ippin g t he balan c e int o a
fun gal domin at ion c o m p o st ,
whic h is ideal in hort ic u l t u r e.
The ma gic in gredien t in Nic ’s
compos t is fis h s lu dge from
H uon’s Whale Poin t n u rs er y.
The lucky rec ipien t of t he
compos t is , of c ou rs e, 80
he ctares of Cherries Tas mania ’s tr ees , whic h in Oc t ober,
are laden wit h whit e blos This healt hy s oil makes
som.
healt hy t rees an d hea l t hy
t rees produc e s weet er, hi g h The pro pert y als o hos t s a
er qu alit y fruit . They a r e a l so
large n umber of bee -hives
far bet t er able t o wit hst a n d
and bees are bu s y at work
s t res s even t s s uc h as w i n d ,
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