Macadamias Australia

Macadamias Australia is a division of the Steinhardt Group which was founded in 1958 by Ron and Marion Steinhardt, the first generation of our family to cultivate and care for what was then a small patch of land here in beautiful Bundaberg. Today our family’s second and third generations, Ron and Marion’s children and grandchildren, continue to run the family business. Our family business has come a long way from that single unimproved parcel of land that Ron and Marion nurtured to grow peanuts, corn, sugar cane and a variety of vegetables. In 1980, under the name Steinhardt Family Farms, they moved into large scale production of tomatoes and zucchinis and began supplying major supermarket chains throughout Australia and New Zealand. In 2004, we planted macadamias and today we maintain more than 200,000 trees and harvest about 2000 tonnes of nut-in-shell each year. In 2020 construction was completed for a state-of-the-art macadamia cracking and value add processing plant incorporating a Visitor Experience centre, Farmgate Shop and The Orchard Table café. As a result, Macadamia Australia is the largest family owned vertically integrated macadamia business in the world. Packed full of flavour and endless health benefits, our wide variety of nut products are enjoyed in homes around the globe and used by some of the world’s largest food companies. After more than 60 years caring for the land and successfully growing, processing and value-adding nuts, we’re incredibly proud that the Steinhardt family values and quality products are held in equally high regard and that we’re acknowledged as an innovative industry leader.