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By Elise Kleeman, Caltech undergraduate Dvin Adalian was feeling restless. With his friend Ricky Jones, he considered all manner of interesting distractions. In the end, inspiration lay just outside the door. Caltech is dotted with olive trees – trees, they noticed, with fruit just beginning to ripen. So the pair decided to make their own […]

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The 94th international meeting on olive oil, which opened here in Spanish capital three days ago, appointed Iran as the president of ‘Olive International High Council’. In a ceremony attended by representatives from 13 member states and those recently joining the council, Davoud Salehi, Iran’s ambassador to Spain took over from Egypt as the council’s […]

Fritz Grupe hopes to prove the rebirth of olive-oil production in California with his new olive orchard at his Lodi home and property Text by Reed Fujii, Picture : Michael McCollum/The Record, Fritz Grupe, perhaps best known as the Stockton builder of Brookside and other major projects, never planned to get into land development. He […]

By Martha Proctor, Of the so many things to savor about our recent trip to Spain, I was struck by the dominant crop on the arid land. As our 747 approached Madrid, we looked down and saw huge orchards of olive and almond trees stretching for miles. The fruits of both trees permeate the Mediterranean […]