olives101OLIVE NEWS & INFORMATION

Every olive on earth, and the oil it becomes.

An encyclopedia, true stories the sellers won’t tell you, and notes in two languages — from someone who spent twenty years in the trade and has nothing left to sell.

The centerpiece

The oldest olive tree in the world

In a village in Crete stands an olive tree perhaps 4,000 years old — still making olives. A timeline of everything it has outlived… and the one thing that might finally get it.

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The exposés · what the sellers don’t tell you

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The encyclopedia · one page per olive

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❀ The lavender room

Its beauty, its origins, its history — the varieties, the fields, the pictures.

“What does lavender have to do with olives? Well — I’m glad you asked. I just love both, and to me they’re the perfect match.”

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