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Are you growing olives at home?
Would you like to improve your olive tree health and productivity?
This booklet will help you learn the principles of olive pruning and tree care for your most productive season growing olives ever!
The topics covered include:Humans have a long association with olive trees. We have shaped how they grow, as well as having them shape our history, mythology and food security. This booklet is designed to help you understand how olive trees grow, so that you can prune them effectively for better production. It's also designed to be a handy pest and disease reference for for spotting common issues with growing olives in Victoria, Australia, but this booklet is also relevant to other areas of Australia. Ever wondered what those funny looking spots on your leaves are? Now you can find out! How you prune your olive trees will vary depending on the desired outcome for your tree or grove. For example, if you want a hedge, you'll be growing olives under different management practices to more widely-spaced trees. This booklet focuses on individual trees planted for fruit production, and harvested by hand. While high density hedgerows are becoming more common, this booklet deals with groves laid out according to a more traditional and wider spacing between trees.- Tree Physiology - how do they grow?
- Tree Structure - how to maximise fruit production
- Why prune your olives?
- How to prune your olives
- What is Integrated Pest Management?
- Common Pests and Diseases
- Water Management for growing olives
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Tasty and Conveniently Sized Extra Virgin Cold Pressed Australian-Made Olive Oil
Our premium olive oil compares favourably with the exacting standards of high quality foreign oils so you can savour the taste of terroir while appreciating its local origins and low food miles. Like premium wines, extra virgin cold pressed olive oil made from different olive varieties will taste different, and the same varieties grown in different locations will also taste different! Our every day olive oil is a mix of Corregiola and Frantoio varieties. However, unlike wine, extra virgin cold pressed olive oil should not be stored for long periods of time because the quality and health benefits will deteriorate. Look for a harvest date in the same year as you are making your purchase, or a best before date of no more than two years in the future. You can enjoy our flavourful, healthy oil by drizzling it over a meal or use it to sauté and fry foods. Fresh olive oil is one of the most stable oils for cooking because of the high smoke point. It's suitable for baking savoury or sweet dishes. Our favourite is to drizzle it over steamed vegetables before sprinkling them with some dried Italian herbs like oregano or basil for extra flavour. Simple and delicious! If you'd like more olive oil recipes, you can join our mailing list here.Eco-Friendly Australian Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Besides offering locally made extra virgin quality olive oil, we pride ourselves on using sustainable farming practices. Part of our farm philosophy is to reduce food miles as much as possible. You can pre-order our oil, soap, eggs and other produce for local pick up at the Bendigo Community Farmers' Market each week on Thursdays from 1-4pm at the Good Loaf Sourdough Bakery. -
Are you growing olives at home?
Would you like to improve your olive tree health and productivity?
This comb-bound, 18 page, full colour booklet will help you learn the principles of olive pruning and tree care for your most productive season growing olives ever! Price includes shipping.
The topics covered include:Humans have a long association with olive trees. We have shaped how they grow, as well as having them shape our history, mythology and food security. This booklet is designed to help you understand how olive trees grow, so that you can prune them effectively for better production. It's also designed to be a handy pest and disease reference for for spotting common issues with growing olives in Victoria, Australia, but this booklet is also relevant to other areas of Australia. Ever wondered what those funny looking spots on your leaves are? Now you can find out! How you prune your olive trees will vary depending on the desired outcome for your tree or grove. For example, if you want a hedge, you'll be growing olives under different management practices to more widely-spaced trees. This booklet focuses on individual trees planted for fruit production, and harvested by hand. While high density hedgerows are becoming more common, this booklet deals with groves laid out according to a more traditional and wider spacing between trees.- Tree Physiology - how do they grow?
- Tree Structure - how to maximise fruit production
- Why prune your olives?
- How to prune your olives
- What is Integrated Pest Management?
- Common Pests and Diseases
- Water Management for growing olives
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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.
