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September 2025
It was a smaller harvest for most this year with several groves not being harvested at all – not just in Northland but in every region it seems. For those that did harvest, the usual [...]
December 2024
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March 2025
Introducing your new chairman Ewen and his wife Lesley have been involved in the olive industry for 18 years, initially helping out on Leslie's sister's grove, then purchasing their own 600 Tree Grove in 2014 [...]
October 2024
Report from the chair Dear Oliveti members Olive oil is such a great product and we should all be so proud to be producing such a wonderful health food. More and more we are hearing [...]
June 2024
Dear Oliveti Members Welcome to another newsletter. Most of us by now will have completed our harvest. From the feedback that I have received the harvest for most was better than last year so more [...]
March 2024
Dear Oliveti Members Welcome to the first newsletter for 2024 and welcome to our new editor Adrienne Gilmore. We are so pleased to have her skills and are so appreciative of her taking on this [...]
December 2023
Dear Oliveti Members Welcome to the last newsletter for 2023 and with Christmas now just around the corner, a chance to reflect on the year we all have had with our olives. The feedback we [...]
October 2023
Dear Oliveti Members Welcome to our October newsletter. Spring is finally in the air and hopefully we are over the heavy rains experienced these last 9 months. I know that some members have trees that [...]
June 2023
Dear Oliveti Members Welcome to another newsletter. Harvest is such a special time as we finally see the fruits of the years’ work nurturing our trees. Each of us will have our own method of [...]
March 2023
Dear Oliveti Members Welcome to another newsletter and I hope you are all well and looking forward to your harvests. We have all been beaten up by the recent weather and it is a reminder [...]
Dec 2022
SEASONS GREETINGS FROM THE CHAIR On behalf of the Committee - Season’s Greetings to all our Oliveti members and we hope you are all well and looking forward to the year ahead. The Christmas break [...]
Sept 2022
What a fun and informative day we had last Sunday at the Field Day. For those who could not attend, we had a very successful Field Day at Leon Narbey’s grove in Waipu. We had [...]
May 2022
It’s great to see Oliveti is in such fine shape. We have several new members who have recently joined and quite a number showing interest in joining our great organisation. So, a big welcome to [...]
February 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]