THE HAZELNUT ORCHARD IS PEACEFUL on a cool, rainy April day. There’s a thick carpet of leaves in the dim corridors between rows of lichened trees, and the only sound is border collie Tiggy joyfully crunching up stray nuts from the ground.
This is Fourjay Farms, just outside Orange in NSW, and it’s one of the few hazelnut farms in Australia. Those trees were planted in 1990 when Jean and Basil Baldwin first moved to Orange from South Australia. “We’d always wanted a farm, and we
