February 2022

2022-03-08T10:40:16+13:00March 8th, 2022|News|

Hope you are all well and spending time in your groves looking at the progress of your olives. As we are nearing our harvest time, for some of us our olives are ripening earlier than [...]

November 2021

2021-11-18T15:43:32+13:00November 18th, 2021|News|

The mad Christmas season is rapidly approaching, and I hope this missive finds you all well with plenty of flower on your olive trees and a bumper harvest in the offing. There seems to be [...]

October 2021

2021-11-18T15:45:04+13:00October 12th, 2021|News|

With the current Covid restrictions life seems to have been put on hold. This has affected our plans for our Olive Awards and Field Day. We have had to delay our Olive Awards as our [...]

July 2021

2021-07-06T17:25:32+12:00July 6th, 2021|News|

What a great Field Day we had at John & Caroline’s place in Paihia and what a great turn out. Lots of catching up with each other, discussion on how well we went with our [...]

April 2021

2021-04-20T10:56:06+12:00April 20th, 2021|News|

We are now at the busiest and most important time of the year when we are harvesting our olives. Most groves seem to be harvesting earlier this year and this may be the way things [...]

December 2020

2020-12-31T13:57:30+13:00December 31st, 2020|News|

Well what a year that 2020 has been. All our lives have been affected in some way by Covid 19. We are however fortunate to be in NZ and the isolation from the rest of [...]

September 2020

2020-12-31T13:55:35+13:00September 30th, 2020|News|

Once again we had a very successful Olive Awards judging. 19 silver and 5 Gold!!!! An improvement from last year and the judges were very complimentary of the high standard we achieved. Congratulation to all [...]

June 2020

2020-12-31T13:52:41+13:00June 29th, 2020|News|

With our harvests over for this year we will now be thinking about selling our oil. It would be good to get feedback from members as to how their harvest went and also what sort [...]

March 2020

2020-04-13T16:40:05+12:00April 13th, 2020|News|

This is my first newsletter as your new chairman so it will be learning experience for me in understanding the requirements and the role and all the help I can get from the members will [...]

January 2020

2020-01-31T15:45:50+13:00January 31st, 2020|News|

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you have all managed to take some time off from grove work and enjoyed family and friends. John and I are slowly but surely dragging ourselves outside and [...]

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