The cool climate and well-drained soils of North Boyanup, not far inland from Bunbury on Western Australia’s coast, are particularly favourable for the cultivation of olives. That’s the prime crop growing on Jenny and Carlo Ioppolo’s 70-acre property, Destiny Farms.
In fact, you could almost say olives are Carlo’s destiny. His family, from the rural village of Sinagra in eastern Sicily, has been in the olive oil business since at least the early 1900s.
His maternal grandfather Vincenzo Sinagra — as in the name of the village — migrated to Western Australia 100 years ago and set up a business pressing olive oil in Wanneroo, now
