Growing olives was just the start of the Goodchild family’s journey into producing extra-virgin olive oil, associated food products and even a skincare range.
For more than two decades, Steve and Racquel Goodchild have lived and breathed Pukara Estate olive oil. They moved to the Hunter Valley in NSW as newlyweds in 2000 to help the grove’s founder, Bruce Eglington, extend the plantings he’d begun the previous year and have been “working on buying the business” ever since.
They’ve been hands-on supervising the expansion of the planting of the present 200 acres (80…
