Olivery News

Learn how to make your own moisturising cream with all natural ingredients; no chemicals, no elaborate equipment needed. Morag Black is holding a workshop on 12th May at the Telegraph Hill Olivery!  She will show you how to make a beautiful cream with Telegraph Hill's own Extra Virgin Olive Oil and other natural, spray free and organic ingredients.  All requirements will be supplied and as there are only six places available it is essential to book early.  You will learn how to create a basic cream which is useful for all types of skin.  Fragrance free, this cream can be...

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.

Burning an Olive Oil Candle at Telegraph Hill...