Would make state definitions conform to world standards
Current California law does not define olive oil grades
A bill to update California’s definitions of olive oil grades to conform to international standards is headed to a vote by the California Assembly.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee voted Wednesday to approve Senate Bill 634, authored by Sen. Patricia Wiggins, [...]
By Elizabeth Larson,
State Sen. Wiggins introduces bill to modernize definitions.
California olive oil makers are raising the bar when it comes to the quality and quantity of olive oil produced in the United States, and an industry association is supporting more stringent olive oil grade standards.
State Sen. Patricia Wiggins, D-Santa Rosa, has introduced Senate Bill 634 [...]
Oroville-based California Olive Ranch Inc. continues to make progress on building the largest olive mill in North America.
The mill, being built near Artois, is expected to process 76,000 gallons of olive oil a day.
The company has invested more than $30 million in its Glenn County operations, which includes a 1.500 olive orchard.
Glenn County olive growers [...]
By Kyra Gottesman,
Jennifer Davis is The Kalamata Queen, her kingdom is a small orchard with the Sutter Buttes to the south, Lassen Peak to the north, the Thermalito Afterbay to the west and Oroville Dam to the east.
“Isn’t it beautiful?” asks Davis, surveying her silver-leafed olive trees and the magnificent 360-degree view. “I love my [...]
By Natalie Tadic,
Shirley Bougourd knows olive oil. She tells me she’s still learning, that the past three years of running The Olive Pit, haven of oil and good taste in general, has been quite the experience; that she’s still taking in new information each day. But to the average lay person, Shirley knows her stuff. [...]
By Karen McIntyre,
More than 150 years after the Gold Rush, gold is still being pumped out of Tehama County - well, liquid gold, said Jane Flynn, owner of Pacific Farms, which produces Pacific Sun Olive Oil.
Using the “liquid gold” slogan was one idea presented during a tour of Pacific Farms Tuesday to discuss ways to [...]
There’s a new name for the East Coast Olive Oil bottling and packaging plant at Griffiss business park, but that’s all that’s changing, says a company official.
The company that moved to Rome from Utica last year and has about 160 employees is now known as Sovena USA, Inc.
“Really, it’s just a name change,” Eryn Balch, [...]
By Tina Caputo,
California olive oil history dates back hundreds of years to the late 1700s, when the first olive trees were brought over from Spain. As the industry grew, olive trees became a common sight in Northern California and the Central Valley, and olive oil processing mills began opening to meet demand for the golden [...]
By Jim Downing,
Oroville-based California Olive Ranch Inc. plans to break ground today near Artois, Glenn County, on what it says will be the largest olive oil mill in North America.
The plant, which the company hopes to begin operating in October, will be able to process 76,000 gallons of olive oil a day, according to California [...]
By Reed Fujii,
LODI - Olive oil production in California is a hot ticket.
About 130 people joined in a two-day class offered Friday and Saturday in Lodi by the University of California, and others had to be turned away, said Dan Flynn, executive director of the UC Davis Olive Center. California olive oil production still is [...]
By Greg Atkinson,
Last September, when I was in California, I enjoyed a picnic in the shade of some enormous old olive trees. The tables were covered with Provençal fabrics, and when we sat down to eat, we were greeted with bright green olive oil poured onto plates for dipping the artisanal breads that awaited us [...]
By Ross Farrow,
The domestic olive oil business shows such potential that Cortopassi Partners plans to increase production to 12 times more than it currently does at its plant southeast of Lodi.
The San Joaquin County Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing tonight on Cortopassi’s use permit application to expand its plant. If approved, Cortopassi will [...]
By Laura Kurtzman,
After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to the flowering of the California wine industry now, it hopes to do the same for olive oil.
The challenges to the emerging industry are significant. They include finding economical ways to produce fine oil, dealing [...]
By Liz Crain,
The Mediterranean region cultivates the majority of the world’s olives, but when it comes to domestic olives, California is the largest producer, cultivating roughly 10 percent of the world’s table olives.
Oregon has been typically considered either too cold or too rainy for olive cultivation, but farmers are beginning to realize that the state’s [...]
Olive experts from the United States, Spain and Italy will teach the latest techniques in growing olives for commercial olive-oil production during an April 18-19 public short-course coordinated by the UC Davis Olive Center.
The course, to be held in Lodi, will begin Friday, April 18, with an update on olive-oil production in the United States [...]
A pest is harming one of Northern California’s most important crops….and the problem seems to be growing.
By Steve Milne,
It’s a fruit fly that plagues olives. The bug first appeared in California 10 years ago and has spread across the state. Hannah Burrack is an expert on the olive fruit fly. She teaches entomology at North [...]
Hoping to do for olives and olive oil what it has done for grapes and wine, the University of California, Davis, today launched the first university-based olive research and education center in North America.
Plans for the new UC Davis Olive Center, which is part of the university’s Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, [...]
By Stevie Ipsen,
An olive crop worth about $2,400 is reportedly missing after several men, posing as pickers from a local olive oil company, picked and drove away with 6 tons of olives.
According to William Klarenbach, his mother’s 6-acre property on Flournoy Avenue consisted of manzanilla and mission olives that were simply loaded into pickup trucks [...]
The Olive Festival kicked off on Saturday, when Rev. Michael Kelly gave the official Blessing of the Olives at the historic Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma. The festival, which stretches over three months, is full of workshops, dinners and parties inspired by the salty snack. For more information, visit www.olivefestival.com
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The Olive Pit, 2156 Solano St., is celebrating 40 years in business.
The Chamber congratulates them for a successful business that puts Corning on the map by attracting tourists. It also employs many.
Pete and Ann Craig had been olive growers since the early 1950s (and picked olives in the late 1940s and 1950s).
Pete helped operate the [...]
By Lisa McKinnon,
In many parts of the country, a holiday home tour would be just that: a tour of homes. Ticketholders would march past gardens barren of leaves and flowers, or just plain covered in snow, in order to get to the main, preferably heated, attraction.
Not so in California and, in particular, Ojai.
Those attending this [...]
By Kerana Todorov,
The two Napa Valley chefs — Fox works at Napa’s Ubuntu and Cognetti is executive chef at St. Helena’s Tra Vigne — will receive a delivery of freshly-pressed “olio nuovo” this week from the Dickson Napa Ranch, a hillside property high above Jamieson Canyon Road.
“I love it,” said Cognetti, who uses the freshly-pressed [...]
With California olives and olive oils now savored all over the globe, this beautifully illustrated volume is a timely tribute to the California olive and its much-deserved place in history.
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County supervisors, in an effort to support wineries and olive growers, are lowering the amount of transportation fees growers are required to pay.
The fee will be based only on the square footage of the commercial use area, such as wine/olive oil tasting and sales facilities. The processing facilities or light industrial component will be considered [...]
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