We are olive growing enthusiasts living the good life, preserving olives and making olive oil in the Illawarra.

We are keen to help others get the right equipment and supplies for picking olives and curing olives at home. We sell fermentation kits designed specifically for olive preserving in brine. Our kits can also be used for fermenting vegetables and are great for big batches of sauerkraut.

Brining olives / pickling olives is a simple process, but you can choose to experiment and complicate it as much as you like! Check out our olives preserving recipe for tips on how to preserve olives and our sauerkraut recipe.

About us

Coal coast olives is a small family hobby farm growing olives for table olives and for olive oil.

The only way to get fermenting pail stock perfect for pickling small batches of olives was to order the pails and grates in bulk and so we started selling some of the excess stock to other growers. We are always trying to encourage others to plant a tree or to harvest their tree and have a go at making olives by curing the olives in brine in fermentation buckets / pails. .

To help finance our olive obsession we sell fermentation kits to home gardeners and other olive / vegetable pickling and fermenting enthusiasts across Australia!