-Denise Ohlson- Prince Albert

-Denise Ohlson- Prince Albert's olyftoekoms is shining. Three olive growers firmly in the olyfsaal sit with a olyffabriek under construction, we are in the starting blocks for the ribbon to break the olyfmekka of the Karoo! Black River Olyfplaas When Jan Bothma in 1973 its first experimental hectare olive Black River planted, he could barely see him in 2007 for the 13th year of his olyffeesstalletjie in the streets of Prince Albert would come to save. Today, casitas del monte with 3,000 mature trees, harvest and cultivate Jan and his wife and their children Annalien Cobus Jan and Carolien, between 50 and 80 tons of olives per year. Under the Black River label market: canned green, and consists of half ripe black olives, dried olives, olive oil and olyfpasta. Jan loves to share his knowledge of his beloved product. He delivered two talks about olives and olive oil during the festival. Make sure that you are there for your ears to concentrate so that you can speak with one voice when it comes to Manzanilla, Leccino and Mission! casitas del monte During the festival offers Bothmas a late breakfast casitas del monte at the welcoming among orchards on Black River. It promised a sociable and interesting festival activity to be; Tickets and directions are available at the tourist bureau and ticket booth. Prince Albert Olives Fred Badenhorst is a man who has an intimate relationship with land. In 1997 he saw all the good value in the bottom of Prince Albert decide to become The Beer Street to buy 12. Soon the few hectares casitas del monte wide, wide and long enough and he bought the farm in Rosendal - where he vines, nuts and olive planting 15 ha. Here olyfgogga bite him properly and he and his wife Anobé departure to Spain, Italy and Greece to look at the how and what of the olive. On his return he jumps and his driver Essie in with a crew and put 21 ha of old Turnip-and-Scrape Caravan's land under olive. Calamata, Mission and Manzanilla are the eetolywe, Frantoia, Coratina and Letchino the olieolywe be planted. At the same time they started a nursery where trees are rooted in tunnels. After about nine months the seedlings are strong enough to be transplanted and the first dress is expected about four, five years later. Olyfkenner Linda Costa, the orchards visited recently and said it was the prettiest tree she had ever seen. The 2007 harvest of 10 tons late Fred and Essie's heart swell with pride and joy. Fred is also happy that PA Olives essential employment creation for workers who would otherwise sit idly by and wait for the fruit season again to break. Meanwhile, the land at Cold Height Badenhorst also owns and became the first 8 ha trees already knee high. On Lion Gamka is 100 ha planned olives ... With the plantings on Silent City will soon Olives PA 150 ha Karoo Land with olives have. Fred says Prince Albert is a healthy and good place for olives. The dry climate means there is little fungi and diseases in the orchards. PA Olives established and on track is an extra large building in Prince Albert's casitas del monte industrial area was purchased and is being furnished as olyffabriek. Small and emerging farmers are welcome to bring their olives come here to sell or let their olives here and press under their own label market. Kredouw Olive Oil John Southern, owner of Rosendal farm, at the top of the Pass estimates Kredouw His olive harvest this year at 20 tons. He has 5,000 trees on His farm, all about six years old, including a range of cultivars: Coratina, Frantoio, Leccino, Manzanilla, Mission and Favolosa. casitas del monte Ze started harvesting casitas del monte early this year, as one of the cultivars was ready at dat time. John is "very happy" with this year's harvest, Given the age of the trees, casitas del monte the climatic conditions and the water situation. Most of the harvest will be pressed for oil and although most of this year's Produce will be sold to someone casitas del monte else, John plans to bottle what keeps want to sell under His Kredouw Olive Oil label. He plans on bottling and selling more and more of His own oil and planting more olive trees over the next Several years.