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As the Turkish government gave its blessings to energy and construction companies to build new facilities anywhere across the country, felling trees and plundering nature to erect coal plants, mines or tourism complexes has increasingly become the norm in recent years … The vast plunder of natural areas in the country can give way to…
Cutting down olive trees is becoming a more common occurrence in Turkey. This week a local news agency reported that “50 olive trees were rooted out” in the Yılmazköy countryside, in Aydın. A private company bought the land to build a geothermal power plant that will replace the famous centuries-old olive trees that produce the…
One can never be too sure of anything in this old world, but an end may well be in sight to the legal troubles arising out of marketing pomace oil as pure olive oil by Kangadis Food, Inc. under their Capatriti brand, as well as those of the company’s principals, Aristides, Themes and Andromahi Kangadis…
New Zealand’s largest olive oil producer will look to capitalise on Europe’s disastrous olive harvest. South European olive production has been hit by an olive fly and unfavourable weather which in some instances have seen tonnages plunge by more than 50%. Southern European nations produce 70% of the world’s olive oil, bringing in $2.8 billion…
Who knew that olives didn’t come in rainbow colours? Well … me, actually. I naively thought that olives grew in all colours, like tomatoes, carrots or capsicums. And in the past I have enjoyed eating them from a bowl with a drink in the evening. But now I think about it there was no difference…
Auckland-based European food importing business William Aitken & Co is delighted a publication authored by several senior international medical figures in the latest prestigious Postgraduate Medical Journal encourages people to focus on eating healthy whole foods such as those found in a Mediterranean diet rather than merely counting calories.
A perfumer from Oxford who promised to supply extra virgin olive oil to a South Devon business breached unfair trading regulations by sending an inferior mixture. Paul Frank Carter pleaded guilty to charges made against him under the Business Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 following a complaint from South Hams soap manufacturer, Emma’s Soaps.
Residents near Gingin are counting the cost of violent weather that tore through the region on Wednesday and caused them to fear for their lives. Bushfire, torrential rain, tornado-like winds, deafening thunder and gleaming lightning hit dozens of properties north of Perth in a few hours on Wednesday afternoon. At Regan’s Ford, 140km north of…
Travelling in Greece as a young woman piqued Annetta Paterson’s first interest in growing olive trees. The young woman from the Alpine high country of East Gippsland, whose family has grazed cattle on the Nunniong high plains, was spreading her wings and seeking new experiences. “When I first travelled overseas, I went to Greece and…
The Naturally Good Expo tradeshow and conference for the natural, organic, free-from, Fairtrade and sustainable products market, will be held in Sydney from 3-4 May 2015. The event is an annual gathering of progressive business owners, brand manufacturers, entrepreneurs, retail buyers, specifiers and purchase influencers, product and marketing managers, health practitioners, investors and the media,…