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Wondaree Macadamias | Greg O'Neill
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The Wondaree Orchard

Established 1983

Wondaree has been owned and run by Greg & Wendy O’Neill since 1983. The farm is located on a beautiful spot on the Atherton Tablelands, where the right amounts of rain and sunshine produces a carpet of green that spans the countryside and blankets the encircling mountains, a panorama visible from their back patio. Wondaree macadamia nuts are farmed on this beautiful spot by Greg under the watchful eye of Roy the kelpie.

Destruction and Rebuilding

In 1984, a year after establishing the farm, Greg & Wendy planted the first 4000 trees. It takes four or five years for a macadamia tree to flower, and this crop provided all of Wondaree’s produce until a second planting of 2800 trees in the year 2000. Many of these were not to last.

For all the beauty of Far North Queensland, it sits perilously in the path of cyclones whose effect on the environment can be brutal. In the space of just six years between 2006 and 2011, Wondaree was twice hit by cyclones that devastated the orchard, wiping out 5500 trees and years of labour. In the end, though, the Queensland sun came out again and today the farm is back to full production with an orchard of 2700 trees and a run of cattle to keep Greg, Wendy and Roy busy.

Wondaree - Roy (our best friend)
The Wondaree Windmill
Wondaree Cows on the Farm

About Our Macadamias

Macadamias are native to Australia but can also be found growing today in South Africa and Hawaii, where they thrive in the well-drained soil in temperatures that hover around 25 degrees. 

Macadamia trees burst with highly scented, creamy coloured racemes (flowers) in late winter and early spring and nut fall is expected in a six-month cycle. The nuts fall naturally from the tree, green in colour and are harvested between April and September, scooped off the ground by pinwheel harvesters. The nuts are dehusked and dried onsite at Wondaree before being sent away for additional drying and finally cracking, a process that ensures the nut kernels are rich and crisp. 

The Farm

Wondaree is our family farm. Every nut in a Wondaree pack comes from a tree in the orchard of our home, and there’s a goodness and care there that you can find in every packet. 

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Wondaree macadamias flowering
Wondaree Macadamias 400grams

A note about our new packaging

Our nuts are so good they could sell themselves — but a little push from the marketing department never goes astray.

When, after 25 years, we decided it was time to refresh our packaging, we didn’t need to look far for help. 

Our wonderful daughter Ashlea's years working as a designer in Brisbane, London and Sydney made her a handy contact when we found ourselves in need of some artistic flair. 

Ash's undeniable status as a country girl at heart, and her connection to our farm and family, made her the only person we trusted to create the new face of Wondaree. 

We are so excited to see Ash’s colourful new packaging hitting the shelves and flying out the door.

To our longstanding customers — we hope you love the new look as much as we do. And to those of you who saw our bright range in the supermarket, airport or online, and wondered, “Can they be as good as they look?”.

It’s a lot to ask, but we reckon so. 

Greg & Wendy

(Ash is also the talent behind our Visual range from 2010 and this website — thanks Ash!)