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Caltech is proud to announce the First Annual Olive Harvest Festival, an all-day event to be held November 2, 2007. The Festival will bring together the Caltech community as a team to harvest olives from the 130 olive trees growing on our campus in preparation for processing, pressing, and bottling our very own olive oil. […]

Des olives trop petites, parfois déjà flétries: la sécheresse qui touche le pourtour méditerranéen affecte la récolte des oléiculteurs français, réduisant la production d’olives de moitié dans certaines exploitations du Var et des Bouches-du-Rhône. A Auriol, Jean-François Margier a débuté la cueillette de ses olives à huile jeudi, avec une semaine d’avance par rapport à […]

Could olive oil be your way to healthy eating? Chief Alex Rodriguez of Miami’s Baptist Hospital and a slew of others think so. Alex loves to cook, and he loves to cook healthy. So at Miami’s Baptist Hospital he serves up lean meats and loads of vegetables with a splash of olive oil. “I use […]

Last year saw very small crop Nearly half of this year’s harvest is picked It’s a tale of “famine to feast” in California olive groves. After an extremely small crop last season, Central Valley olive growers have seen production rebound sharply this fall. The larger overall crop means that individual olives have been smaller in […]

Two family-owned food businesses, both suppliers and service providers to the olive and condiment market in North America, will merge in 2008. Mario Olive Co., a division of Westin Foods of Omaha, Neb., and A. Camacho Inc. of Plant City, a subsidiary of Angel Camacho group, will merge, a Mario Camacho press release said. No […]