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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.
Amelia Coates, general manager of the Angel Inn, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, Inn Collection Group
Expectations of working in hospitality: I always worked in the sector going through university. But it wasn’t until three years ago that I saw my career starting in it.
I came back to it literally by accident. I had a car crash which left me in chronic pain. I had become isolated and withdrawn and beginning a new job as front of house was a way for me to start to rebuild not only my fitness but my confidence and self-esteem.
I almost felt I was taking a moment out. My expectation was that it would be for a short while. The reality was I fell in love with the trade – the lifestyle and the businesses ethos. Until that point, I had never found that ethos. To me, it’s not about finding the job – it’s about finding the company.
A HORSE trainer and church volunteer from Nailsworth has raised £20,000 in her fight against a rare and aggressive breast cancer. People from Stroud, other parts of England and abroad donated the money so Nina Collins, 59, of Forest Green, could travel to Spain and receive last-chance private treatment. After an intensive two-week course before Christmas, one tumour has partially broken apart. Nina will receive an NHS CT scan next month to see what progress has been made. “I just sat there and cried tears of joy” said Nina, after hitting the fundraising target on January 18. “It’s hard to put into words how to thank people. I don’t think I’ll ever get my head around it, that people thought my life was worth that amount of money.