Olive Making

Students from our Melton Campus Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC) Numeracy class have picked, brined and bottled the olives growing in the College veggie patch.

This required weighing olives, creating a brine mixture using ratios, budgeting for ingredients and changing the brine solutions almost daily during Term 2.

“When the olives were ready, we put them into jars and added garlic, pepper and chilli to the mix. We also had to add vinegar and oil to help preserve them. We gave some jars of olives to our teachers.” Ajak, VPC student

Narelle Layton

Applied Learning Leader