ON THE FARM: A BUMPER OLIVE CROP

Along with autumn has come olive season, and with a wet 2012 winter and 800 teenage trees now in production, our olive crop has been GYNORMOUS. This translates into double last year’s oil (200 litres of Leccino, Frantoia, Mission Coratina ) as well as, for the first time, a large crop of eating olives, (Kalamata, Mission, Nocellara del belice). With the latter we think we will get 400 jars of olives, as well as some tapenade.

As always everyone got involved in the picking, and volunteers -Jake Jackie and Gerry - also took pictures of the olive boutique in Riebeek Kasteel, where our olives were pressed.

Johann Human is also designing a new product label. We will keep you posted.