Adopt An Olive Tree

Apulia Grove invites you to experience the fun of making your own oil or pickled olives without the frustrations of full time farming.

Our adopt an olive tree program allows you to learn how olives are grown and processed from tree to table, in the company of friends, old and new. You can choose to adopt either oil trees or table fruit trees, depending on your preference. You get to be as involved as you like during the growing season, before getting hands on with the harvest and processing of the olives.

Our grove is located in the heart of the Heathcote Wine Region, well known for the many wineries producing fabulous flavours from different grape varieties. But did you know that everything you can do with the variety, terroir and blending of grapes during wine making, you can do to with olives to influence the flavour of olive oil you’re making too?

Option 1: Making olive oil (Select your preferred Oil Variety below, choose “NONE” for the Table Variety option)

We have a minimum batch size of 50kg of fruit in order for our processing machine to run efficiently, so the fruit from your tree may be combined with what’s picked from other trees of the same variety on the same day, and you can share the oil produced.

The oil making events, known as “Harvest Home” will run on selected weekends between April and June each year. The ticket includes: admission for two adults (kids free) to your choice of date for the Harvest Home for one harvest season, and 2L of oil at bottling day in late September.

Option 2: Making preserved olives (Select your preferred Table Variety below, choose “NONE” for the Oil Variety option)

All olive processing dates will be in held conjunction with the oil making dates between April and June each year. Each ticket purchase includes: admission for two adults (kids free) to your choice of date for the Harvest Home for one harvest season, and 4x500g jars of fermented or dried olives at bottling day in late September. A mixed combination of 2x 500g jars of each type of preserved olives can be arranged.

Please note: It takes anywhere from 3-12 months to correctly pickle olives. This time frame depends on the ripeness of the fruit, and your individual preference for flavour.

Terms and conditions for ticket sales:

• Ticket holders will be invited to select a picking time and date for the upcoming Harvest Home based upon their preference for the ripeness of the fruit and availability to attend the farm.
• These times and dates will be communicated to ticket holders via email by the March long weekend.
• Ticket holders must arrive at their selected picking time for orientation. Due to Workplace Health and Safety reasons, if you miss orientation, you will not be permitted to pick.
  
• This event will go ahead, rain, hail or shine. Welcome to agriculture, folks!
• Refunds are not available for those who miss orientation.
• Refunds must be requested in writing. Full refunds will be available up to 7 days before the selected Harvest Home event begins. Requests made 2-6 days before the selected Harvest Home event begins will have 50% of the ticket price refunded. No refunds will be considered less than 48 hours before the selected Home Harvest event begins.
• Any olives or oil not collected on bottling day in late September are forfeit to Apulia Grove Olives for sale under our own label.
• In the event that Apulia Grove Olives needs to cancel the Harvest Home in any given year, ticket holders will be offered a full refund or the option to keep their tree adopted for the following harvest season.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any additional questions.