Archive for the 'Geographic' Category

28 Sep

Army prepares to safeguard Palestinian olive farmers

By Yaakov Katz and Tovah Lazaroff, To ensure a calm olive harvest this fall in the territories, compared to the last four tumultuous ones, the IDF and the Civil Administration have been working in the last month to ease tensions among settlers, Palestinian farmers and left-wing activists. “Our goal is to allow the Palestinians to […]

28 Sep

NUDO Adopt an Olive Tree

Nudo is an olive grove. And part of it can be yours. Adopt one of its 881 trees for a year and you’ll receive all the produce from your tree. Imagine dunking your bread in your own oil from your own tree 1,500 miles away on a hillside in Italy. It’s delicious, it’s good for […]

28 Sep

Olive harvest appears very small

Olive harvest has been underway for about two weeks and farmers say they are not finding much fruit on their trees. In an average year, farmers would harvest about 4 tons of olives from each acre of trees. [Source] Click Here

27 Sep

Narranghi Olive Grove first Two Sisters pressing

Di and Warren West of Narranghi Road, together with Di’s sister Kerry and Paul Moran of Sydney, have produced their first pressing of olive oil from the Narranghi Olive Grove, just outside Braidwood. Narranghi (Nar-ang-guy) means Peak of the Mountain, and Di moved back to the family land nearly 6 years ago, and the sisters […]

27 Sep

Tunisie: L’huile d’olive, un produit de luxe

Il y a quelques difficultés chez nous, et son prix après s’être envolée vers des cimes à 7 DT le litre, il se replie à moins de 5 dinars sous l’effet de problèmes d’exportation, alors qu’en Europe l’huile d’olive est devenue un produit de luxe enregistrant une augmentation de 38% sur 12 mois (2005-2006), avec […]