Most olive "facts" circulating online are wrong, including the two most repeated ones: that green and black olives come from different trees, and that a raw olive off the branch is edible. Here are twenty-five that hold up, grouped so you can find the one you came for. The olive is Olea europaea, in the family Oleaceae, which also contains…
Read the story →How big do olive trees get? Usually 20 to 30 feet in the ground and 4 to 10 in a pot. Size by variety,…
October 31, 2026A cold hardy olive tree still has limits. How cold olives can really go, which varieties hold up best, what zones work and how to protect one.
October 28, 2026Are olive trees toxic to cats or dogs? The tree is not a known pet poison, but pits, fallen fruit, garden chemicals and pollen can be. What to watch for.
October 25, 2026Straight off the tree, an olive is inedible — bitter enough to make you wince. Curing is how we fix that, and you can do it at home…
Kalamata are ripened and brine-cured. Tinned black olives are picked green and oxidised. Why one tastes of wine and the other of almost nothing.
An olive that is delicious from the jar can wreck a dish, because heat does three things to it: it drives out salt, it softens the flesh, and…
In a village in Crete stands an olive tree up to 4,000 years old — still making olives. A timeline of everything it has outlived, and the one…
By Elisabeth Kalfsbeek, While it is produced in Europe and South America as a byproduct of wine grapes, grapeseed oil…
India's olive-oil boom was built less on extra virgin than on the humblest grade of all — olive-pomace oil, sold…
Every olive is used twice. After the oil is pressed, the leftover skins, pulp and crushed stones are dried and…
By Sudhin Thanawala, MARTINEZ, Calif.—Later this fall, Tom Powers will harvest his olives and press them into his Alhambra Valley…
Australia arrived late to olive oil and turned that into an advantage: fresh-crushed, dated, southern-hemisphere extra virgin that lands when…
A deli line from a supermarket brand of Australian olive oil won a champion's medal at last week's Sydney Royal…
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.”
