September 2019
AND THE AWARD GOES TO... Congratulations to this year’s winner - Best in Show winner ‘Duck Creek’ Warkworth, for their J5 and Frantoio, medium blend, olive oil. Derek and Sally Holland moved to their grove [...]
Exploding the myth – NZ Extra Virgin olive oil is an ideal frying oil
The New Zealand olive oil industry has been quietly evolving over the last decade. By global standards the annual output is small at around 300 tonne p.a. This contrasts with the Australian output of extra [...]
October 2018
Winter is well and truly gone and the buds are heavy on the trees but still very few flowers showing yet in the Bay of Islands area and further North. Which brings me to the [...]
July 2018
Hopefully, by now you will all have liters of fabulous oil in your bottles and fustis and some even in your clients’ pantry. Generally, everyone seems to have had a really good season although the [...]
May 2018
As you will be aware a new committee was elected at the last AGM and suddenly my inbox is full of emails! Balancing tending to those, and picking over 2 tonnes of olives by hand [...]
March 2018
The 2018 harvest brings great hope. The strangest of summers have seen high temperatures and they are continuing into late March but intermittent high volumes of precipitation. The effects so far seem to be large [...]
October 2017
Spring is springing and all looks promising. This is a dangerous statement in horticulture but with very heavy flower sets we can be hopeful of a good season ahead. With fingers and toes crossed we [...]