September is springtime in South Africa when nature realises that it is time to wake up and be fruitful. But, of course before the fruit there must be flowers and a delicate process of pollination has to take place.

We are encouraged by the amount of flowering going on...

Sadly we have not entered the SA Olive Awards since our winning haul of 2016 – one could say that it has been a period of consolidation following our severe pruning of our olive grove in 2017 and the scorching by the bush fire of 2018 – so we were pleased to be able to...