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
Hundreds of people carrying bags full of olives stood in a line at a community garden in Brunswick East in Melbourne’s north.
This year there has been a bumper harvest. So far the community has collected 20 tonnes of olives and they’re expecting to press more than 2,000 litres of oil from them. Another collection will be run in two weeks at the Hobsons Bay festival.“We were expecting that this would be a big year because we could see the trees around town were quite bountiful,” says Merrin Layden, the manager of the not-for-profit 3000Acres, which runs the festival.
“Everyone in the line was having a chat, talking about how they grew their olives,” Wilson says. “And the olive pressing process was really interesting too.”
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