Sevilo Ltd is Margot and Richard's family company, Sevilo (TM) is the name of our property, near Greytown in the Wairarapa.
We grow, produce and sell Olive Oil, Hazelnuts and Table Grapes with the name Fantail Grove (TM).
Fantail Grove has its own website where you can find out about what olives and hazelnuts we grow, how you can visit us, and buy our products, and even learn a thing or two about fantails.
To see this info, go to:
We will be developing the Sevilo site as a place to learn about us and our other interests, rather than our products.
Margot has her occasional blog, while so far Richard has only managed to put up some info on obscure New Zealand recording artists.
So why "Sevilo"? Back in the 1990's when growing something, maybe olives, was but an idea, a colleague suggested "Sevilo" as a joke. It sounds good, and might even be Italian, but is of course just "olives" spelt backwards.
But other peaople had the same idea! There were other Sevilo's out there, so when we finally had nuts and oil to sell, we chose something distinctly more Kiwi, and representative of our grove - "Fantail Grove" was born.
As the years have passed, we finally managed to trademark "Sevilo" and obtain the sevilo.co.nz domain name. Hence this web site. We hope you like it.
©2010-2012 Sevilo Ltd