The good oil: how Melburnians can turn their backyard olives into liquid gold
Richard Cornish
Photo: Richard Cornish
As part of a community-building exercise in May, not-for-profit organisation 3000Acres is offering Melburnians the chance to turn their backyard olive harvest into extra virgin oil. There are thousands of olive trees across Melbourne, says Merrin Layden, project manager for 3000Acres Olives to Oil Harvest Festival, held across the weekend of May 29. There are old, gnarled trees in people s front yards, planted by immigrants from the Mediterranean. There are trees planted for privacy that are now producing fruit. There are olive trees planted for pickling, trees in public parks, and growing wild along the waterways.
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Last year comedian Tom Ballard thought he was feeling somewhat burnt out when it came to performing. Then lockdown started.
âI was getting to the point where it was just not as magic as it normally is â then you donât do it for eight months and you think, actually, this is really great.â
He concedes though, that he was nervous after such a long break. Aside from some âweirdâ gigs in that brief period between lockdowns last June, his gigs started to slowly come back at the end of last year.