tom tame - warwickshire walnuts
Shipston-on-Stour
Granary Oils & Warwickshire Walnuts are brands of TR Tame & Son of Burmington in
South Warwickshire. The small farm was taken on in 1959 by John & Sheila and
John’s mother and father. For the last 40 years it’s been pretty much Hay (often
for Zoos, Race Horses & goats) & Sheep. Granary Oils was started by David &
Rachel Tame selling cold pressed walnut & rapeseed oils and hand creams.
Inspired by David’s father John who had been grafting fruit trees for 50 years
on the farm and who had over the years planted many seedling walnuts David
decided that he ought to plant some named cultivars to get better nuts. A figure
of around 400 was decided on as that fitted the old pasture field they planned
to use The first few grafted Broadview went in 2013/14 and the following years
another 40+ Broadview & Lara and some Franquette for pollination. David’s
brother Tom started sourcing and working with the trees in 2015 and over the
next three years over a 300 trees went in, by this time the posts, wire mesh,
ties and irrigation methods having been more or less sorted.
