By Rob Rogers,
At the McEvoy Ranch, the end of the harvest season comes not with the arrival of turkey, cranberry sauce or stuffing, but with the bottling of “olio nuovo” – a bright-green, strong-tasting oil made from the 550-acre ranch’s freshest olives.
Like almost all of the olive oil produced at the northern Marin ranch [...]
By Robbi Pengelly,
With the grape harvest wrapped up, the focus has turned to Sonoma Valley’s other crop – olives. Here workers at B.R. Cohn Winery flail at olive trees with long poles like acolytes in some ancient Druid ritual. Next month will mark the launch of the Valley’s annual Olive Festival, complete with the blessing [...]
Finolex Group has stepped into the business of olive oil and chosen a 210-hectare stretch of barren land in Rajasthan for plantation purpose.
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Finolex Group [...]
A Corning couple is out around $1,200 after thieves stole 4,000 pounds of freshly harvested olives Sunday night.
By Ryan Sabalow,
Katherine Woodson, who owns a 20-acre plantation with her husband Marshall, said that an olive harvesting contractor had worked all day Saturday and Sunday getting the harvest ready to take the fruit to wholesalers on Monday.
The [...]
La production mondiale d’huile d’olive devrait atteindre 2.633.000 de tonnes pour la campagne 2007/2008, indique un bilan provisoire adopté par le Conseil oléicole international (COI) lors de la 96e session de son assemblée générale ordinaire tenue du 17 au 21 novembre à Madrid.
Selon le même bilan (entre octobre 2007 et septembre 2008), établi sur la [...]
175 huileries de la région de Monastir se sont préparées au mieux pour extraire une huile si précieuse. A la différence de l’olivier Chetoui répandu au nord du pays et qui produit 30 pc d’huile, le Chemlali en produit 20 à 22 pc.
La trituration des olives, une tradition qui remonte au 8ème siècle avant. J.-C. [...]
par Audrey Bollaro,
Les moulins à huile des Alpes-Maritimes ont ouvert leurs portes à toutes les personnes passionnées par l’oléiculture. Cette manifestation organisée par le Syndicat Interprofessionnel de l’Olive de Nice, la Chambre d’agriculture des Alpes Maritimes, les moulins et les coopératives oléicoles des Alpes-Maritimes, a permis de faire découvrir le savoir-faire des mouliniers.
En février dernier, [...]
La campagne oléicole bat son plein dans le gouvernorat de Béja et on note cette année une meilleure récolte que lors de la campagne précédente. En effet, la récolte d’olives à huile est estimée à 25.500t, soit 4.600t d’huile, et pour ce qui est de la récolte d’olives de table, elle avoisine 3.000t.
L’année dernière, la [...]
By Marc Lutz,
Grapes may always be king, but olive crops could hold steady second.
A lumbering beast crawls along the ground in the olive orchards near Kingdon and Thornton roads, gobbling up the green-black fruit from hundreds of trees. The grape-sized olives are then spit into a large plastic bin to be transported to their final [...]
By Mohammed Zaatari,
Sidon’s renowned Khan al-Franj souk hosted an Olive Day over the weekend, during which farmers from several southern communities gathered to learn about ways to plant olive trees and extract oil, while displaying several items related to the fruit.
The event was part of the weekly Souk al-Ared (Land Market) activity organized [...]
By Catherine Dawes,
Cowan London has redesigned the packaging for a range of olive snacks called Oloves.
Oloves are the first natural olive snack to be packaged in a stand-up pouch. The pouches use a silver laminate, are wider than they are tall and contain 45g of olives.
“The redesign focused on giving the brand personality and making [...]
By Zainab Al-Arabi,
While the seasonal olive tree harvesting isn’t over yet in the Gebel region, (depending on the gatherers timetable), the rush for olive oil this year is incredible. Everybody wants it. Even those who don’t like the taste of olive oil in cooking are ready to accept it this year.
With the price of [...]
Here you can actually see every step in the process,
Beginning with the giant stone wheels crushing the olives.
Next the olive paste is spread onto mats which are stacked up then squeezed together, forcing out the oil.
A centrifuge then separates the water from the oil, it’s that simple!
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An olive plantation project costing Rs 14.585 million is starting at Akakhel Maira in Bara Tehsil, Khyber Agency, under the Sustainable Plans Development Programme (SPDP).
The project envisages establishment of community farms on 2000 acres of land under an agreement with local tribesmen. The project, when completed, would be handed over to the owners of the [...]
By Anne M. Hamilton,
The stock market may be tanking, jobs are disappearing and the state budget is hundreds of millions in the red, but at least our olive oil will be safe.
Prompted by a complaint from a Norwalk importer, the state Department of Consumer Protection has enacted regulations guarding the purity of olive oil, making [...]
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