Dear Philip:

Thank you so much for your positive feedback on our site.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you the best in your new
business endeavors. Let me know your url, when ready, so that I too can
visit your site.

Although I do not participate on a daily basis in the discussions of our
list, I read all the messages daily and I have to say that, apart from
enjoying it, I have also learned a lot from other members' discussions. I am
looking forward to participating more actively when a subject closer to my
expertise arises.

Thanks again Philip.

Best regards,
Constantine Alexander
www.papashaven.com

Hello:

My name is Philip Maro, and I am a new member to the list. I joined the
list because I am considering starting a business selling olives/oils and
other gourmet items through the Internet. I felt that joining the list
would be most beneficial to anyone interested in olives/olive oils. I have
found this list to be most informative, and I have learned alot in the
short time I have been a member. By the way Constantine's site at
papashaven.com is excellent.

My paternal grandfather immigrated to the USA from Sicily and settled in
New York City in Greenwich Village where my father was born and raised. My
grandfather's brother made his living importing olives and oils to the USA.
So I guess I have it in my genes. Needless to say I grew up consuming alot
of olive oil and all the great Italian/Sicilian dishes.

Hopefully we'll hear more from the consumer like Mr. Yue. Without the
consumer none of us would be here, and I think their input is valuable.
Well I won't run on any more. Keep up the good work everyone.

Sincerely,
Phil
pmaro@rev.net

Hi Phil

Welcome to our list and hope to hear from you again. Once you have your site
ready, you can include a link to it on OliveOil by visiting:
http://www.onelist.com/links/OliveOil

On your website you can promote our OliveOil community by including the
following html code:

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Click to subscribe to OliveOil</a>
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You wrote:
>I felt that joining the list would be most beneficial to anyone interested
>in olives/olive oils. I have found this list to be most informative, and I have
>learned a lot in the short time I have been a member.

Thank you for your kind words above. Many on our list share with you these
feelings and I, in particular, find the discussions very informative. We have a
fine group of people here, don't we?

Best regards
Sadoun

Hello all Olive Oil lovers!
My name is Cindi Nicholson and I own Olive Merchant & Company at
www.olivemerchant.com. We are located in Northern California and sell Olive Oil
products from Oils to Olives to Soaps.....-Everything Olive so to speak.

I really enjoy reading about the members and hope that I too can be an active
participant in the community, as often as possible.

I have met many wonderful people who are trying to make a difference in the
world of Olive Oils. They provide education (such as the COOC) and friendship to
people like me who also want to contribute our experience in a positive way, by
providing quality products to our consumers.

Thank you all for making this business an enjoyable learning experience.

Cindi Nicholson-Olive Oil lover
Olive Merchant & Company

Hello,

Time to introduce myself. I am a farmer in the Kiewa Valley in the North
East of Victoria, Australia. I work off farm as a professional fundraiser
working for not for profits, like hospitals, nursing homes and schools etc.

I am very interested in olives and plan to establish a grove of
approximately 3,000 trees. The first 1,000 were planted in October &
November and the next lot are due to arrive soon.

The number of varieties is confusing. I have planted Paragon and Nevadillo
and the next lot will be Manzanillo. I have no idea which is best!

Recently a co-operative was formed in Albury to cover Southern NSW and the
North East of Victoria. I went to the first meeting and came home chairman!
Starting off a new co-operative is exciting but also a bit challenging.

Most of the trees in our area are very young so there is not much fruit
yet. We will probably hire a mill for this coming harvest and work towards
buying a plant for 2001 harvest.

Which extraction method is best? Most processors seem to use traditional
presses, but some prefer the centrifuge. I would be happy to receive some
opinions.

Regards to all,

Sil Garoni

Sil

Welcome and congrats on being elected Chair of your new co-op. You might
like to look at www.hunterolives.asn.au
for how their co-op is being set up.

Re processing I feel the only way to go is centrifuge because they can
handle huge amounts efficiently, hygenically and without the inherent
problems of black water if a 2 stage facility is utilised.

Regards

I would like to welcome our new member # 314, Trish Haydon from New Zealand.
Welcome Trish and hope to hear from you soon.

I am proud of all the members for their educating posts and their complience
with the list guidelines. Thank you all. There is only a small minor note I
would like to remind you of:

"2.6. When replying to a post, do not include the entire text of the
original post. Keep only what is relevant. By selectively deleting
unnecessary parts of the original text, you will make your reply easier to
follow. To show where you delete text, the <snip> notation may be used.

2.7. If your reply significantly changes the topic of a message, change the
subject line to reflect the new topic. "

Thanks
Jamal Sadoun, list manager

Hi Tomasco

> We have, among others, around 2000 olive trees, aging 30-100 ++ years; we
> have just started the envisaged conversion period for organic agriculture.

Congratulations. It makes me happy to hear of yet another organic olive oil
producer. I look forward to the day when we can use only organic olive oil
for our products.

Vicki Younger
www.redgumsoaps.com.au <http://www.redgumsoaps.com.au>
vicki@redgumsoaps.com.au <mailto:vicki@redgumsoaps.com.au>

From: Nikolaos Galanakis [mailto:galanakis_nikolaos@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:20 AM
To: OliveOil-owner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: New Member



Hi, my name is Nikolaos Galanakis and i am an olive trees grower, and olive
oil producer out of hoby than an actual source of living income. However i
would not mind getting a bit more serious with this, and the money and time
i am investing in it to see it become more of a business.

I am interestde in sharing any experience with other professionals as far as
olive trees growing, machienery used and any biological methods that i could
implenet in producing a healthier product.

If anyone feals like chating inthe following topics or can share personal
experience woul dbe more than happy to hear about it.

The topics i am interested are:

-Machienery used to cut the weeds, and parasites around the tree.
- Machienery used to collect the olives.
-Machinery used to extract the olives from the branches once they fell on the ground.
-Methods used to extract the olive oil
-Methods used to package and distribute and initial tiny qty of abt 200 ltr of olive oil produced, and prices.

Thank You very much.

Nikolaos Galanakis

Hi Iam a new member to this group and new to the olive industry

I am setting up a olive grove in Wellington mill Western Australia
and are after any info on suppliers from olive trees through to
stakes all equipment for growing olives

thanks
Anthony