Florida Macadamia Growers Cooperative - FMGC

02/21/2026

A nice review of our macadamia nuts:

I was born in Miami, raised in Sebring (Lorida, actually). Lived in Polk City a couple years. Spent 6 years in Hawaii, lived on 4 of those islands. Now live on a canal in Hudson Beach! Surprised to find you growing mac nuts in Lake Alfred! I ordered a lb. a while back, yours as good or better than the ones grown on Maui or the big island!

Thanks, Ron.

02/17/2026

Cookies for tomorrow night's market at Grove Roots Brewing Co.

White chip macadamia, milk chocolate chip macadamia and the new English toffee macadamia.

02/09/2026

I've been working on a new flavor of macadamia cookie. The first batch turned out really nice. They are English Toffee. They have English Toffee bits added to them instead of white chips or milk chocolate chips. Although the cookies have a nice chew to them, the English Toffee bits add an unexpected crunch to the mouth feel.

I'll have to get some feedback on them to make sure I'm not being biased.

02/04/2026

I'm sure some of you are wondering why I'm posting images of bacon here. It's to demonstrate the uses of macadamia trees. Not only are the nuts fabulous, the husks can be composted and used as soil amendments under the trees or mixed with soil mixtures for container plants, the wood can be cut or chipped and used for compost or for smoking meats and cheeses, and the shells make a remarkable aggregate for sand/dirt driveways, smoking meats and cheeses and for making biochar.

This is dry-brined pork belly, i.e., no curing salts. All that was used is kosher salt, fresh cracked black pepper and paprika. It was dry-brined under a vacuum for 10 days, then smoked at low temperatures using crushed macadamia nut shells.

02/01/2026

This picture is from a few years ago, but it shows the effectiveness of Tree T-pees. At a 27.7˚ outside temperature, inside the T-pee it was 63.3˚. Most importantly it helps save the trunk of the tree, but it also creates a column of warm air that rises up through the tree. I generally use them on any tree with a 4" or smaller caliper. I had already put a lot of them out a few weeks ago, but in the past few days I put them out on every tree they would fit around.

This morning my results were similar, but not quite as good because of the high winds. At 25.2˚ outside the inside of the T-pees was 41.4˚. With as much wind as we had I don't think the protection will be as good, but anything helps.

01/28/2026

t's nice to have a good harvest after a season with no hurricanes and get back to normal business.

Busy late last night and again early this morning baking white chip and milk chocolate chip cookies for tonight's market...about 260 cookies in less than 5 hours collectively.

01/27/2026

Freshly cracked and sorted macadamia nuts ready to go into the oven for roasting. Once they come out they are lightly salted with sea salt.

12/16/2025

Lots of white chip and milk chocolate macadamia cookies as well as roasted salted macadamia nuts at the Grove Roots Brewing Company holiday market tomorrow night.

12/15/2025

I'll be there selling roasted-salted macadamia nuts, white chip macadamia cookies, milk chocolate macadamia cookies and macadamia nut shells for smokers and grills.

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11/19/2025

Making macadamia nut shell biochar one 55 gallon drum at a time.

11/12/2025

White chip and milk chocolate macadamia cookies for the Moonlight Market at Grove Roots Brewing Co. tomorrow night.