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Homegrown

“HE’S HAD SOIL ON his fingers from day dot,” says Natasha Dal Bon of her dad, Frank. Together, they run Morella Grove, an olive oil company based outside Griffith, NSW, in the Riverina food bowl. It’s Frank who tends and harvests the 15 hectares of olive trees whose fruit creates the oils, soaps and relishes the company is increasingly becoming famous for.

Growing up

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