Olives

The Big Squeeze

Manager - Bill Hay

Masterton Olive Press Manager Bill Hay tells the story of how in the early days of the Olive Press, olive grove owners would arrive with their olives piled into crates the size of shopping baskets to be tipped by hand into the press and any olive oil produced would be carried away in plastic bottles.

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Everything Olive in Tauherenikau

Karen Juno

Owners Karen and Ian Juno began preparing for planting the first of their 1280 Olive trees in October 2001. Before planting could begin, they manually ‘grass grubbed’ the necessary clearings of thick, deep-rooted rye grass in readiness. Their aim was to give the trees, sourced from Italy, Spain, France and Greece a good start without pasture competition.

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Big Year for Lot Eight

Boutique olive producer LOT EIGHT has again been recognised for consistent high standards this season, winning another ‘Best in Class’ award for its Artemesia (Red Label) Extra Virgin Olive Oil at the 2008 Olives NZ awards.
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CONTENTS SUMMER 2011

4 Events Section

8 Harvest Festival

10 Moon over Martinborough

11 Snippets

14 Children of the Wairarapa

16 NZ International Arts Festival

18 Sandy Cowell - Life in California

20 Simon Burt - Travels in China

22 Tanya Katterns - Balloons over Kenya

24 Golden skills of a signwriter

26 Cobblestones Museum printer

28 Delphine Morris - Mana Films

30 Butchers’ BBQ tips for summer

32 Wairarapa skies

34 It’s quite Cool

36 Art for the birds

37 What’s on at Aratoi

38 Ballroom Dancing in Carterton

39 Summer Dining Guide

44 Martinborough Wines Directory

46 Olive Oil Directory

48 North Wairarapa Wines Directory

50 Lifestyle Directory

54 Advertisers’ Directory and Information

55 Regional map

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