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Tarnagulla Farm of Balingup has been named the Best Oil of the Show at the Perth Royal Extra Virgin Olive Oil 2013 competition, judged in August. Karridale Olive Farm took out the Best Boutique Oil of Show trophy for the second year running, while Preston Valley Grove also made it two consecutive wins with its…
Local olive growers were recognised with two gold medals at the recent Perth Royal Show extra virgin olive oil competition. Tarnagulla Farm in Balingup won a gold medal, and came first in its class. Burnbrae Olive Farm, in Queenwood, won a gold medal and came second in its class. It is the main olive oil…
Entry is still open for the Southern Hemisphere chapter of the International Armonia Olive Oil Competition for producers in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Uruguay. The competition is open to producers of high-quality extra-virgin olive oil and aims to promote the awareness and knowledge of extra-virgin olive oil through food-oil pairings. Closing…
A Blackwood supermarket has removed olive seedlings from its shelves following complaints by Mitcham Council. The sevillano olive seedlings have been removed from sale at Coles’ Main Rd store, only days after the Mitcham & Hills Messenger revealed the council’s concerns.
A pest plant, which Mitcham Council spends more than $500,000 a year to destroy, is on sale at a Blackwood supermarket. The council will write to Blackwood Coles asking it to stop selling potted olive plants, describing them as an environmental pest, a bushfire hazard and “extremely inappropriate”. It will also write to the State…
The local region is a carpet of grazing and cropping land. Agriculture is a way of life, with generations carrying on family traditions of producing livestock and facing cycles of planting and harvest. Some area producers do the same, but they have evolved their production methods at a much smaller scale – some from scratch,…
The Western Australian Olive Council (WAOC), in conjunction with the AOA and chief judge Richard Gawel, is organising Olive Oil Tasting Workshops for later this year. The initial workshop/s will be at beginners’ level, with a judging recruitment workshop to follow if there is enough interest. It is anticipated the workshops will be held in…
Riverton and District High School were clear winners in the 2013 Royal Adelaide Show Young Olive Oil Judges Competition, taking out first and third place this year after winning first place at last year’s show. The Mid North was well represented in the competition, with students from Horizon Christian School in Balaklava coming in second. The…
The International Olive Council has praised the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) for the effort behind its report on competition in the global olive oil trade but laments that “opinions as opposed to facts” are at times conveyed in it. In its first public comment on the USITC document since its September 12 release,…