Australia Nuts Sandalwood Western Australia

Australia Nuts is a company founded by Aaron Edmonds in 2005 with the purpose of promoting and developing the production and marketing of sandalwood nuts in Australia. Aaron is a young farmer in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia who in 2003 was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship to study ways to reduce the dependency of agriculture on fossil fuels. What he discovered led him to believe that the Australian sandalwood nut had a vital part to play in the future of Australian farming.

The world's first dedicated sandalwood nut plantation was planted on the Aaron Edmonds' Wheatbelt farm in 2000. It is ironic that this Australian native tree is likely to once again dominate the farming areas from which it has been cleared for nearly 100 years. In order to understand exactly how important a role the sandalwood tree and its delicious nut will play in the future of food in Australia, it is important to understand the current dependency conventional farming systems have on fossil fuels and how perilously linked the global food supply currently is to crude oil and natural gas supplies.