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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

WELL, HASN’T THAT BEEN A CONFUSING HARVEST! From green olives with little colour (particularly little or no yellow) producing 16 – 20+% yield and in the neighbours grove very few green fruit but with masses [...]