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<pre>Hi all
Sadoun has certainly moved some of us quiet lurkers.
I am Lee Hallett and so far have sat back quietly and let the other
members of the family make the running
Kent Hallett is my son and he is the olive grower
Colin Hallett is my grandson and he is my computer whizz and builds the
web pages and keeps the updated.
I have just started an olive oil plant at Riverton in the Mid North
region of South Australia, like Kent 100 km north of Adelaide.
The area is mainly sheep and grain growing, but there are many, many
small plantings of olive trees most 60 to 100 years old. As far as I
can suss out some probably planted by one of my ancestors. As well
there are increasing numbers of new plantings, many designed to
complement the other activities on the farm.
Most of the older plantings have been left to themselves for years
because there was no easy to get the fruit processed and because the
demand for the oil was almost non-existent.
Migration of Europeans over the last years have changed the focus and
now many farmers wish to have their own oil
These small producers have difficulty in meeting the minimum ;quantities
of large mills, especially if they wish to avoid holding fruit for long
periods.
Looking to fill the gap in processing for these growers, last year I
built a factory and installed an Oliomio 100. It had great response in
a year of low production.
This year I am installing another Oliomio 250. This will give me
flexibility to process one, two or three batches for clients
simultaneously
Throughout the district interest in olives is reawakening. Hopefully
everyone in the district can grow together in olive production
Regards
Lee Hallett
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<pre>And a very welcome to you Grandma Hallett

May you and your 250 do very well this coming season. I remain ambivalent
about getting the same machine given our (obviously) less state of
preparedness over here in Vic. But... Your message gives me strength.

And, just by the way, I wonder if we could start a Lurkers List. Seems to
me that Sadoun has indeed bought many of of the proverbial closet. If one
did start such a list who would communicate? Would it be like the
Anarchists's sites where consensus is a nine letter word and that's about as
close as you get to meaningful dialogue. But I jest.

Best regards Grandma Hallett.


----- Original Message -----
From: LEE HALLETT <lhallett@camtech.net.au>
To: <oliveoil@onelist.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 10:13 PM
Subject: [OliveOil] Another head raaised


> From: LEE HALLETT <lhallett@camtech.net.au>
>
> Hi all
> Sadoun has certainly moved some of us quiet lurkers.
> I am Lee Hallett and so far have sat back quietly and let the other
> members of the family make the running
> Kent Hallett is my son and he is the olive grower
> Colin Hallett is my grandson and he is my computer whizz and builds the
> web pages and keeps the updated.
> I have just started an olive oil plant at Riverton in the Mid North
> region of South Australia, like Kent 100 km north of Adelaide.
> The area is mainly sheep and grain growing, but there are many, many
> small plantings of olive trees most 60 to 100 years old. As far as I
> can suss out some probably planted by one of my ancestors. As well
> there are increasing numbers of new plantings, many designed to
> complement the other activities on the farm.
> Most of the older plantings have been left to themselves for years
> because there was no easy to get the fruit processed and because the
> demand for the oil was almost non-existent.
> Migration of Europeans over the last years have changed the focus and
> now many farmers wish to have their own oil
> These small producers have difficulty in meeting the minimum ;quantities
> of large mills, especially if they wish to avoid holding fruit for long
> periods.
> Looking to fill the gap in processing for these growers, last year I
> built a factory and installed an Oliomio 100. It had great response in
> a year of low production.
> This year I am installing another Oliomio 250. This will give me
> flexibility to process one, two or three batches for clients
> simultaneously
> Throughout the district interest in olives is reawakening. Hopefully
> everyone in the district can grow together in olive production
> Regards
> Lee Hallett
>
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<pre>Lee, enjoyed your story in one of Olive Australia's monthly newsletter. Good
luck with your 250.

Regards,

Phil B
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