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UPCOMING EVENTS
Next Oliveti Field Day – 11:00am Sunday 14th. July, 2019
The venue is Cheviot Park Motor Lodge, Cheviot Street, Whangarei.
We will be dealing with the issues of how we can improve our crops quality and quantity, tree health and polyphenol count while at the same time eradicating the use of sprays. We are not pushing the full organic profile but trying to give our members options for grove care.
Our speakers are Phil Walesby and Peter Crelinsten. Peter spoke to us at our last field day and he is joined on the 14th by Phil Walesby, an arborist who has recently made headlines by saving some of the poisoned Pohutakawa trees at Opito Bay.
We have chosen a comfortable in-door venue for this mid-winter event so we can all listen in comfort. Tea and Coffee will be provided as well as a light lunch. There is no need to bring your own food unless you have strict dietry requirements. The meeting should end by 3pm.
OUR NEWSLETTERS
June 2019
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 [...]
March 2019
Suddenly thoughts of Summer have almost gone as the preparations for our harvests get into full swing – simple things like checking that the rats haven't got into the picking nets and got hungry, have [...]
February 2019
I am typing this accompanied by the gentle pitter patter of steady RAIN on the roof, in fact I have been hearing the sound off and on since we returned last night (Saturday) from 3 [...]
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 [...]