Macadamia nut ‘trampolines’ a potential game changer for the industry

The equivalent of trampolines positioned under trees could forever change the way macadamia nuts are farmed, if the industry adopts what has been a very successful four-year trial for an innovative young couple.

Inspiration struck when Aimee Thomas was on her tractor “undoing a lot of the goodness” that she and husband James had achieved by building up a rich layer of compost around their trees’ fragile feeder roots.

“Because we harvest macadamia nuts off the ground, we have to do a very good clean-up,”…