This is WHY I changed to dwarf fruit trees. The mandarine and olive provide a lovely welcome home drive, but are kept to manageable dimensions by rather frequent pruning.

It is difficult to see in the background, but behind both trees are grape vines growing on the mesh fence. The scattered leaves at the base are from the chooks foraging for bugs yesterday.

Our suburb has a community garden and a lot of olive trees in backyards. Every year we can pick the olives from our trees, take them to a central point and then they are driven up to an olive farm to crush into oil for us. We weigh the amount of olives we contribute, provide a bottle, and then receive oil in the proportion of our contribution to the press.