Perth Voice Interactive

THE kids from North Perth primary are coming back for your olives, after last year’s inaugural harvest produced an award-winning oil.

What started as a small fundraiser plan to raise money for a new playground went massive when Voice readers offered up their trees, groaning with fruit, for plucking. The kids collected more than one tonne in just days.

York Olive Oil Company owner Arnaud Courtin pressed the fruit and he told them their product—sourced from a huge variety of olives was so good they should enter it in the Royal Show.

So they did: Harvest 6006 (the North Perth post code) competed against 152 other oils—almost all from commercial producers—and picked up silver with judges calling it “green vegetable-like on the palate, with subtle bitterness” and “tropical and nut aromas”.

The kids need locals to offer up their trees again this year for more school fundraising, so get in touch with Sonia Hills at s_hills@iinet.net.au if you’d like to help.

They’ll be picking over April 25 and 26 if you want to volunteer, and heading up to York on April 27 for the pressing.

by DAVID BELL