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Welcome to the Old School Yard

Home of Old School Yard Blooms  and   Old School Yard Olive groves AND OSY Wedding Celebrant services.


A boutique grove of two hundred olive trees and 200 sq m of wonderful flower beds. A mixture of Lecino and Frantoio and a few J5 olives. Nestled in the beautiful quiet upper Waiwera valley. This is a hobby farm otherwise known as a life style block.  With help from wwoofers we manage to produce a few hundred litres of organic olive oil each year. Our oil is DELICIOUS and sort after far and wide. Here are some things you can do with our olive oil. (First you have to get some). Where from? See below. Oh and we do flowers. AND offer wedding celebrant services. Not at our place but anywhere around here a little north of Auckland is OK. Especially if you are getting married at the local venue known as Boutique Barn. Boutique Barn is a lovely little venue on a quiet rural cul de sac, Bayer Road. We are close to Waiwera, Orewa, Wainui, Puhoi, Waitoki etc. So feel free to contact us before your next wedding! We can help with your flowers and even marry you! Oh I mean officiate at your wedding.

You can write to olive@oldschoolyard.co.nz for any inquiries.

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Updated October 2024. Read more here.

We are back at the Puhoi Market. It is each last Sunday of the month. You can get our oil here:



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Wwoofed here before?

We thought that if you have been one of our fabulous wwoofers and you are back home, you could show your friends where you have been and what we do here.

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Our story

In the 1860's the local community petitioned the fledgling colonial government for some help in running a local school. The children had to either walk over Noakes hill to Puhoi or down the Upper Waiwera road to the Waiwera school.

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How do we grow the olives?

And make such fab oil?

How do we grow the olives and make this fabulous oil? Glad you asked. Read on.


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Recipes

So, you have some of our oil. Thanks. Now what can you do with it?

Oh lots of yummy things.

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Nice looking chap

Wedding Celebrant - John McConnell

John is a qualified wedding celebrant from the NZ Celebrant school. Is a validated member of VCANZ and enthusiastically endorsed by some of his best friends! Read all about it here.

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