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By Sandra Godwin, The Boundary Bend olive harvest was under way this week after a halt caused by Timbercorp’s financial woes. After a three-day shutdown, workers at Timbercorp olive groves at Boort and Boundary Bend got back to the business of harvesting olives last week. The harvest ground to a halt earlier in the week […]

By Melissa Allison & Amy Martinez, This fall during the olive harvest in Italy, Dan McCarthy plans to have about 180 bottles of freshly pressed olive oil shipped by air from the 50-acre Tuscan estate of his former Queen Anne customers, Enzo Schiano and Claire Beliard. To cover the airfreight, McCarthy & Schiering Wine Merchants […]

By Rachel Hewitt, The harvesting of Timbercorp’s giant olive crop will resume this morning after the company struck a $15 million deal to sell the fruit to its harvester. The fate of this year’s crop – at two olive groves in northern Victoria – was uncertain after the company’s April 23 collapse. The harvest must […]

Harvesting is going ahead at one of the largest olive groves in the world, owned by Timbercorp. The grove, at Boort in central Central Victoria, is one of the properties the company had trouble selling, before placing itself into voluntary administration. Will Pattison, who works as a contract harvester at the grove, says it makes […]

Going green can mean picking the right olive oil and one expert on the oil says California’s premium olive oils are often worth the extra money. University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor Paul Vossen, an olive oil expert, says the state’s olive oil has a promising future if word of its many benefits is […]