Apr 12, 2017 | Australia, General Olive News, Olive business
There are upsides and downsides for the South Burnett’s primary producers from ex-tropical cyclone Debbie. Clovely Estate’s Moffat- dale Olive Grove has just started their harvest for this year and Olive Grove manager Aaron Stefan said the rain was good,...
Apr 12, 2017 | Australia, General Olive News, Olive business, Services
Local farm Yirri Grove will open its olive press this Easter for a workshop on how to make your own olive oil. Yirri Grove owner Anne O’Neill said she started the workshop after receiving interest from people who had their own olive trees at home. Another example of...
Apr 12, 2017 | Australia, General Olive News, Olive business, Olive Oil News, Services
Dank Street Produce will be pressing olives straight from the family farm on April 7, 8 and 9. The olives have been harvested from the Fourth Village Estate at Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley and will go straight to the market floor to become olive oil. The freshly...
Apr 6, 2017 | General Olive News, NZ, Olive business
It is a surprise to most people that there are 550 olive trees growing well in Rangitikei at Rata, and that the growers win prizes for their olive oil. Hamilton and Gaylene McConachy have about 100 hectares of a fattening sheep and beef farm and have frantoio, leccino...
Mar 30, 2017 | General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olive business
Dr Heinz-Peter Germann, Head of Product Development at ecological leather tanning specialist Wet-Green, will be a key speaker at the upcoming “ILM Automotive Leather Supply Chain” conference … Titled ‘Natural olive-leaf tanning for sustainable automotive leather’, Dr...
Mar 30, 2017 | Australia, Events, General Olive News
Mount Zero Olives will kick off the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival this month, hosting a Regional World’s Longest Lunch — one of 24 simultaneous events held across Victoria on Friday, March 31.