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<pre>Hello to every body, I am after any information I can get on setting up an olive
farm in Tasmania ie: olive types, soil conditions, mechanical versus manual
harvest, any reading material etc:
My partner and I have absolutely no prior knowledge of any olive farming so no
big words please and treat us with kid gloves until we can comprehend any info
supplied


Sincerely Kerry Ackerly

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<pre>hi kerry
i have a grove in woodbridge. where are you guys going to set up?
you have a couyple of choices - you can grow the common types or you can grow
cold climate olives.
either way happy to discuss with you and try and help you in the right direction
you can get me on stewartr@... or 0418350961
we have 600 trees that are 4 yrs old and 550 that are 1 year old
let me know if i can help
cheers
ross stewart
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:09 PM
Subject: [OliveOil] olive oil info please


Hello to every body, I am after any information I can get on setting up an
olive farm in Tasmania ie: olive types, soil conditions, mechanical versus
manual harvest, any reading material etc:
My partner and I have absolutely no prior knowledge of any olive farming so
no big words please and treat us with kid gloves until we can comprehend any
info supplied


Sincerely Kerry Ackerly

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<pre>hi ross we would be looking at setting up in the tamar valley region in northern
tasmania and i would hazard a guess that we would need cold climate trees which
i didnt know existed but hey, i am learning already thanks and i will be in
touch

Ross Stewart <stewartr@...> wrote:hi kerry
i have a grove in woodbridge. where are you guys going to set up?
you have a couyple of choices - you can grow the common types or you can grow
cold climate olives.
either way happy to discuss with you and try and help you in the right direction
you can get me on stewartr@... or 0418350961
we have 600 trees that are 4 yrs old and 550 that are 1 year old
let me know if i can help
cheers
ross stewart
----- Original Message -----
From: kerry ackerly
To: OliveOil Moderator ; OliveOil@yahoogroups.com ; olivesorganic
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:09 PM
Subject: [OliveOil] olive oil info please


Hello to every body, I am after any information I can get on setting up an
olive farm in Tasmania ie: olive types, soil conditions, mechanical versus
manual harvest, any reading material etc:
My partner and I have absolutely no prior knowledge of any olive farming so
no big words please and treat us with kid gloves until we can comprehend any
info supplied


Sincerely Kerry Ackerly

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<pre>kerry
you might like to talk to leon hennessy or russell hatton - they are located in
the north - leon propagates cold climate varieties and russell does a lot of
soil prep (they did mine) - leon 0418313260 & russell 0407973623
or you can ring me and i'll give you the nuts and bolts of it
cheers
ross



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From: kerry ackerly
To: OliveOil@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [OliveOil] olive oil info please


hi ross we would be looking at setting up in the tamar valley region in
northern tasmania and i would hazard a guess that we would need cold climate
trees which i didnt know existed but hey, i am learning already thanks and i
will be in touch

Ross Stewart <stewartr@...> wrote:hi kerry
i have a grove in woodbridge. where are you guys going to set up?
you have a couyple of choices - you can grow the common types or you can grow
cold climate olives.
either way happy to discuss with you and try and help you in the right
direction
you can get me on stewartr@... or 0418350961
we have 600 trees that are 4 yrs old and 550 that are 1 year old
let me know if i can help
cheers
ross stewart
----- Original Message -----
From: kerry ackerly
To: OliveOil Moderator ; OliveOil@yahoogroups.com ; olivesorganic
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:09 PM
Subject: [OliveOil] olive oil info please


Hello to every body, I am after any information I can get on setting up an
olive farm in Tasmania ie: olive types, soil conditions, mechanical versus
manual harvest, any reading material etc:
My partner and I have absolutely no prior knowledge of any olive farming
so no big words please and treat us with kid gloves until we can comprehend any
info supplied


Sincerely Kerry Ackerly

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<pre>Hu anyone !

Jamie and I are farming in Zimbabwe under very difficult conditions waiting
to be thrown off our farm without compensation at any given moment - we are
told that this could be sooner than we think!!. However we continue to
farm in the hopes that the Foreign currency earnings will make our move to
Aussie more viable if we do it at all. We have to be there by April 2005.
Time is rushing past and we have to have some advice on what we might be
interested in.

We visited Mike Meredith in Riebeek Kasteel in the Western Cape recently who
gave us this Website and email address. We were extremely interested in what
he is doing on the Processing side of the Olives which would be our interest
in Australia and still keeps us in the Farming World. At our Age we would
not be able to start growing new Trees and would have to get an established
Olive Farm - or simply do what Mike is doing buying the Olives once a year
to process.

Is there anyone in Australia or New Zealand who can advise and what are our
chances of getting into this, what would be the costs involved, what would
we need etc., etc.,

Many thanks.

Linda Lamb
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<pre>> Is there anyone in Australia or New Zealand who can advise and what are
our
> chances of getting into this, what would be the costs involved, what would
> we need etc., etc.,
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Linda Lamb
>

Dear Linda,

Getting in to the processing side without growing any trees is probably
quite a wise move, as Australia underwent a major planting boom about 8 - 10
years ago and the trees are now starting to produce crops. Within the next
few years there could well be a shortage of processing facilities, certainly
in my area (Hunter Valley, 2 hours north of Sydney) and quite likely in
several other areas where the groves are more "lifestyle" oriented plantings
of 1000 or so trees, rather than the bigger, more commercially oriented
groves with 20,000+ trees.

First decide where you want to live, as olives are grown in all states of
Australia. Then have a look at some of the websites such as
www.australianolives.com.au the website of the AOA, as they have plenty of
information about equipment manufacturers. Good luck!

Regards,

Mike Wilson
Hunter Olive Grove Services.
Hunter Valley, NSW.
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