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Arts in the Olives Festival

The annual Arts in the Olives Festival is on again, making it the 9th year for this highly successful community event. As usual the event is being held on Mothers’ Day, 8 May, at Worendo Olive Grove in the Lost World Valley, about an hour and a half’s drive south of...

All olive oils aren’t created equal

Australians love it when one of their own take on the world and win. But few would expect Aussie victory in something as distinctly European as olive oils. At the world’s largest olive oil awards – the New York International Olive Oil Competition – Australian...

Vacy farmer Chris Iacono has the good oil on olives

Farmer Chris Iacono is proud of what he produces. For Chris it is olive oils, olives, tapenades, sauces and mustards – a collection from his family’s olive grove Bunna Bunoo at Vacy, near Maitland. While preparing some of his produce in the “heart” of the farm – the...