Recent Newsletters
Please click on the links below to read the latest seasonal news from the Mount Zero famiy.
Spring 2010 Winter 2010 Autumn 2010 Summer 2010 Harvest 2011 Mount Zero Cafe - Reopens
Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, Mount Zero Dryland Feast
Join us for a long table feast in the olive grove celebrating the Grampians mountains and Wimmera plains.
The lentil and grain crops are in, the olives are maturing nicely. Taste and toast the best of the Wimmera/Grampians region on a shared table beneath the olives and mountains at Mount Zero. Local lamb, goat and turkey accompanied by French-style green lentils, faro and chickpeas, all matched to wines by local icon, Bests Wines.
When: 17 March, 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Where: Mount Zero Olive Grove, 41 Mount Zero Road, Laharum
Cost: $65.00
Bookings: 03 9315 1415 or info@mountzeroolives.com
We would like to wish you all A Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
Our Café at Mount Zero Farm will be open until the 24th and reopen again on Boxing Day.
Our office will be closed from Friday 23rd December until Tuesday 3rd January.
tel: 03 9315 1415
Australian Olive Oil Association has introduced a voluntary labelling standards
The olive oils we sell at Mount Zero are always of the highest quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil. However, we are pleased that the Australian Olive Oil Association has introduced a voluntary national labelling standards for olive oil Details - are available at www.australianolives.com.au.
We have always worked on this premise and we hope the new guidelines reduce the confusion referring to refined oils being sold as 'premium' or 'extra light'.
1st November 2011
The faces of olive harvest 2011
Allie from California "most pleasant, stress free job I've had!"
Twins Jo & John and dog Zac, from Brisbane "love the soup!"
Mark from Essex "great scenery, great food & people!"
Jeremy from Sunshine Coast "warm company"
Enrique from Mexico "bring swimsuit, raincoat and be prepared to use it in a space of 5 min."
Mel from Canada "perfect setting, I'm going to stay for a while"
OLIVE HARVEST MAY/JUNE 2011
It is harvest time again and while the heavy rains did produce a somewhat damp and forgettable summer, for the farm at Mt Zero at least, the water in combination with the recent brilliant sunshine only means one thing- a bumper crop of delicious new season olives.
The olive picking is proceeding at a rapid pace and should be completed by the end of June. This is possible, as always, with the help of our small international community of pickers (pictured beside and below) who every year are drawn not only to Mt Zero's enduring commitment to organic and sustainable farming, but also to the farm itself and its beautiful surrounds which have become a rock-climbing mecca.
Once the picking is finished, we are also looking forward to the new season olive oil and the blending process entailed in this, which is essential in the delivery of first class olive oil, as well as being tremendous fun. We expect this year's oil to be medium to robust in style, while still displaying the intense freshness that makes the new season so exciting.
However despite the change of season, the new olives and the fresh oil, one fundamental never changes and that is Mt Zero's obligation to flavour. After all, it is all about the taste.
Adrian from Mexico - picker & climbing extrordinare (onsite of Serpentine) "I'm staying on!"
Dave the muso from Queensland "beautiful place, shed & people!"
Myriam from France "Its a work out at work"
Byron & Jane
Thomas (Tito) from France "Great team work"
Rob from Canada "Everything I look for in a job; physical work, great people!"
Salt Harvest - April 2009/2010
About 50km from the Mount Zero Olive grove, is a large crater like pink salt lake. The lake is fed by natural saline aquifers and each summer dries to reveal a bed of salmon pink salt. Mount Zero Olives and the lake’s traditional owners, the Jardwadjali community, have been working together on a project to hand harvest a small amount of salt from the lake each year.
Mount Zero Pink Lake Salt is a natural product which varies in pigment from wet to dry. The local providence of the salt, along with the it’s hand harvesting & natural sun drying, and most importantly the salt’s beautiful flavour and colour are a perfect fit with Mount Zero’s core principles of sustainability, regionalism and quality.
We celebrated our first harvest in Easter 2009, and subsequently had a wonderful response from the ABC Landline segment.
The salt is now avaliable for online sale.
