Olivery News — olives

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This frequently asked question is often answered with another question....what do you want to do with your olives? Eat or Oil?   The rule is the eating olives (table olives) are picked first, while the flesh is still strong so that it will not soften during the natural fermentation, which lasts up to 8 months. Oil olives are picked later, so that the oil has maximum time to accumulate in the olive prior to pressing. The next question:  where are you? Northland start picking in March, Otago in June, and anywhere in between is in between! Ripeness determines the time to...

This was fun, and what an amazing 'resource' we have here in Hawke's Bay with Juliet Harbutt a world renowned Master of Cheese! My key 'take home' point was that, actually, i do like goats cheese.  A good one doesn't taste 'goaty'.  This resonated with me, because, we have the same feedback on olives!  too many 'bad tasting' olives out there puts people off the whole category!   I highly recommend taking part in one of these evenings, and would be suprised if you didn't back it up with a second evening! We got to taste 12 cheeses with 3...

My favourite olive tree. It always produces the biggest olives and a lot of them. The heavy pruning earlier in the season has exaggerated this, it is looking like the experiment of more pruning = less olives = larger olives is working.  Roll on Harvest.