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The popular community event ‘Olives to Oil’ will be hosted at the Newport Community Hub, in partnership with the Hobsons […]

Two Australian organizations are working to prevent olives growing in Melbourne from going to waste by milling combined batches and returning the oil to the...

It’s a bountiful harvest in this year’s Olives to Oil festival – 20 tonnes of fruit has been collected, and it’s expected to yield 2,000 litres of oil

You don’t have to be on a Mediterranean holiday to make the most of an olive tree – and there are plenty of types to choose from.

The good oil: how Melburnians can turn their backyard olives into liquid gold Richard Cornish Photo: Richard Cornish As part of a community-building exercise in May, not-for-profit organisation 3000Acres is offering Melburnians the chance to turn their backyard olive harvest into extra virgin oil.  "There are thousands of olive trees across Melbourne," says Merrin Layden, project manager for 3000Acres Olives to Oil Harvest Festival, held across the weekend of May 29. "There are old, gnarled tr...