Overview

Australian Green & Gold Limited

Managers for: Brooklyn Park and Bonni Foi Olive Groves

100% Australian Grown and Owned - 200% Proud

Australian Green & Gold Limited is the management company for the Brooklyn Park and Bonni Foi Olive Grove Projects. Our very first olive trees were planted on Brooklyn Park in 2000 and we have grown considerably since then to become one of the larger olive groves within Australia. In total our olive groves now cover 540 hectares and we have 220,000 trees planted ranging in different ages of maturity. The properties are located in South Eastern Queensland on the Macintyre Brook River, 22 kilometres west of the town of Inglewood.  Inglewood has all the fundamental ingredients for the successful production of olives.

Australian Green & Gold believe in hands on management and the driving force behind the Brooklyn Park & Bonni Foi Olive Groves and Australian Green and Gold Olive Processors is Peter Shakspeare, backed by an experienced team. Peter has spent the majority of his life in the agricultural and livestock industries. He prides himself on developing primary production enterprises of the highest standard. Peter has lived and worked at Brooklyn Park for in excess of 15 years. Over this time he has turned the property into an established irrigation development, supporting crops of Lucerne, wheat and peanuts. Since year 2000 the Brooklyn Park property has been utilised for the Brooklyn Park Olive Grove projects. The production history of Brooklyn Park not only gives insight into the experience of the Managing Director, but also provides evidence of the soil quality and reliable irrigation source on the Brooklyn Park and Bonni Foi properties.

At Australian Green & Gold we wanted to share our passion for agriculture, our vision as a company was to develop a large scale 100% Australian Grown and Owned,  sustainable, quality,  agricultural production in which we invited investors to participate in.  Our investors own the land, water, trees and infrastructure and share in the  “fruits” of the olive industry as it continues to grow.

The olive varieties planted on Brooklyn Park and Bonni Foi Olive Groves were chosen with a view to their end use. The varieties of Arbequina, Picual and Coratina have been identified as suitable for the climatic conditions at Brooklyn Park & Bonni Foi. These varieties are both high yielding, high quality olive oil varieties that are capable of producing a world class extra virgin olive oil. A percentage of our trees are dedicated to celebrating the Kalamata, Picholine, Hojiblanca and Manzanillo varieties. These varieties are renowned for their exceptional table olive eating quality.

At Brooklyn Park and Bonni Foi we do all of our own harvesting using the latest mechanical harvesting technology, “The Colossus”. This machinery can harvest approximately 120 mature  trees per hour compared with techniques still used in the European countries where most harvesting is completed by hand.  In January 2009 we became fully vertically integrated to which we purchased a processing facility located at Inglewood 20 kilometres from our farms.  We renovated and fitted it out with brand new state of the art Italian Amenduni processing equipment to which we successfully processed all of our own growers groves and other surrounding olive groves.  In line with our company vision we invited our existing grower investors to participate in Australian Green and Gold Olive Processors Limited. Shares are still available should you be interested in participating and the Prospectus and application form for shares can be found under the title “Our Processing Facility” on the home page. This offer closes on 23rd March 2010.

During harvest season with a combination of our Farms, Harvesting and Processing Facility, we employ approximately 20 people in rural Australia and maintain staffing numbers of 13 employees outside of harvest. By supporting the products on this website you are not only getting a fresh quality product, but you are supporting employment in rural Australia to everyday Australians and are supporting  a 100% Grown and Owned, 200% Proud Australian company, and we thank you for your support.