The Goulburn Strathbogie Olive Growers Association
(GSOGA) was established on 9th May 1999. GSOGA currently has about 80 members involved in growing, processing and marketing table olives, olive oil and olive products. Most GSOGA members are small part-time grove owners, typically owning between 200 and 1000 trees. Their groves are within the general Goulburn and Strathbogie region, covering centres such as Euroa, Terip, Molesworth, Yarck, Yea, Avenel, Seymour Mansfield, Eildon and surrounding districts.
The GSOGA Committee is made up from Association members who are elected each year at the AGM. The GSOGA Committee meets once a month to organise educational seminars, visits and practical sessions on grove management for members. Recent seminars have focussed on pest management, making a profit from a small grove and sustainable grove management. Members have visited groves to look at table and oil olive processing facilities and to watch pruning demonstrations and been involved in learning how to taste and then describe the characteristics of olive oil and how to graft olive trees.
The Goulburn Strathbogie Olive Oil Association located in Victoria, Australia has a boutique range of extra virgin oils including some organic ranges.
Charter
The promotion of Olive growing, processing and marketing to the mutual benefit of members of the Association in such a way as to minimize production costs while maximising profit
Joining
To join GSOGA as a full member, you need to have planted or plan to plant 100 trees within a year of joining. (Financial Year is from 1st July to 30th June).
Goulburn Strathbogie Olive Growers Association
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Welcome to our summer edition of Pickled and Pressed. I am encouraged by the amount of rain we have had in our
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The prospect of an Olive Industry Levy has been simmering away on the back burner for several years. It seems that the heat is now going to be turned up considerably. As mentioned in Ceilidh’s report of the AOA conference, Peter McFarlane from McFarlane Strategic Services gave an update of the proposed oil industry levy at the conference and he also has a piece about it in the January edition of the The Olive Press.
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1. It’s Natural! – the best of olive oil benefits. Extra virgin olive oil is nothing but fruit juice extracted mechanically from olive fruit. There is no heat or chemicals used in the extraction process. My favourite and the most beneficial is a fresh organic unfiltered extra virgin olive oil. Follow this link for more information about olive oil grades. read more…