We've Found The Perfect Place To Cultivate Your Favourite Olive Varieties
We Believe In Nurturing Our Local Environment And Its People As Much As We Can
We've Found The Perfect Place To Cultivate Your Favourite Olive Varieties
We Believe In Nurturing Our Local Environment And Its People As Much As We Can
History & Farm
The Buffets Olives 300 Ha farm is situated against the foothills of the Drakenstein Mountains, just outside the picturesque town of Paarl. The ideal combination of granite-based soils and Mediterranean climate makes for the perfect place to cultivate your favourite olive varieties. For the past 50 years, olives have been handpicked at optimal ripeness, naturally cured and packaged for the South African market. Is it any wonder that we are Mzansi’s most loved table olives!
Our People
We place equal value on nurturing our natural environment and our people. Employees at Buffet Olives own equity in the business and share a personal stake in growing their investment.
The Anna Foundation
The Anna Foundation was established in 2005, when a teacher named Anna Brom started teaching at a disadvantaged farm and township school in Mpumalanga. Mathematics and literacy proved to be a major obstacle at these schools. Buffet Olives recognised the vital role education had to play and opted to invest the required resources.
Today the Anna Foundation is a well-established NGO with a clear mandate to inspire our youth with a hopeful vision of the future. The Anna Foundation aftercare school facility is situated on the farm. Here additional projects are available to help build a promising future for South Africa’s younger generation.
Harvest
All olives are initially green and turn black as they ripen on the trees. Our olives are picked separately and carefully by hand and placed in picking buckets. The olive harvest on our farm typically begins in late February and will continue until August.
Why Buffet Olives?
- Trusted brand for over 50 years
- Unique taste and aroma achieved with slow maturation and natural fermentation process
- Quality is ensured by having farming and processing happen in one place
- World-class processing facility