Big Hazelnuts – Hagley

Hazelnuts are a genuinely interesting Tasmanian story. The industry is young in Australia and the island has the cold winters the trees need to set a crop properly – northern Tasmania is among the few places in the country where they do reliably well – so a hazelnut orchard here is a deliberate bet on climate rather than an inherited crop. Five thousand trees represents years of planting before any serious return.

One important practical note. Visit Northern Tasmania records that the farm shop closed temporarily from May 2026, with reopening planned for September 2027. That is a long closure, and anyone travelling specifically for the farm gate experience should treat the shop as shut for now. The producer itself remains active.

The sculptures are at a working farm rather than on public ground, which is why this record is marked restricted.

Their size, their sculptor and their year all sit outside the written record – a common gap for sculptures belonging to a farm rather than a council. Anyone who has bought hazelnuts here in the last decade probably knows.