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By Sarah Brealey, A Suffolk farmer’s produce is staking a claim to be the new olive oil. The glass bottles of extra virgin cold-pressed rapeseed oil are now on sale in Tesco as it rapidly grows in popularity. It has been made by Sam Fairs at Hill Farm in Heveningham, near Halesworth, for the past […]

Recipe by Valli Little, Photography by Ian Wallace,

Par N. Benouaret, La décision est récente. Elle a été prise au titre de première action de redynamisation de la filière oléicole par la Direction des services agricoles (DSA) et les élus de la Chambre d’agriculture lors d’une réunion. Il était temps pour sauver cette filière agricole qui, de l’indépendance jusqu’à la fin des années […]

The website of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food has released final production figures for the 2006-2007 crop season, alongside sales numbers for the month of April & various other data. All figures are in metric tons. As is evident, sales volume has come to a complete halt – at season-low prices – during […]

The olive is possibly the oldest cultivated tree in the world. It is believed that people in the Mediterranean region were cultivating olive trees before written language was properly developed. Certainly the ancient Egyptians had olive groves. From at least the time of Ramses II (1179 – 1165 BC),olive oil from the many groves aorund […]