Apr 19, 2016 | Australia, General Olive News, Table Olive News
Pine Mountain’s Bernard Mahon is a fourth generation Ipswich farmer with an undeniable passion for locally-grown produce. The olive and lime grower’s great-grandfather first settled the land on which he still farms today back in the 1860s. Mr Mahon is now...
Sep 22, 2015 | Australia, Competitions, Olive business, Table Olive News
An innovative introduced to the 2014 and 2015 AOA and Olives SA Table Olive Competitions was the inclusion in both the testing and blind tastings of 20 commercial green, black and Kalamata table olive products purchased from local supermarkets. Convenor of the...
Jun 3, 2015 | Australia, Olive Oil News, Table Olive News
Three students from Congewai Public School recently visited the Lonely Goat Olive Farm to learn about olive harvesting. Jade Blackmore, Sean Doyle and Cain Muir are Congewai Public School’s Kitchen Garden students and got to help collect the olives on the day and will...
May 8, 2015 | Australia, Olive Oil News, Table Olive News
Olive growers in the Canberra region are picking early with a higher than expected harvest. The excellent conditions are likely to make for superior table fruit and greater numbers for processing into oil. However, with the fruit ripening early, winds that hit the...
Apr 22, 2015 | Australia, Olive business, Table Olive News
A New South Wales-based olive processing and marketing company that has been operating for 15 years has collapsed into voluntary administration. Summerland Olive Products Australia was established in 2000 by a group of olive producers who specialise in producing table...
Apr 21, 2015 | International News/Trends, Table Olive News
(A Jordanian) anti-narcotics team arrested a suspect who tried to smuggle 37,000 drug pills by stuffing these skillfully in olives. The Public Security Department (PSD) Media Center said the culprit removed the olive stones, stuffed the psychotropic pills instead and...
