Liguria makes some of Italy's most expensive olive oil from some of its least convenient land — hand-picked Taggiasca off stone terraces.…
Olive leaf has been a Mediterranean folk remedy for centuries and a supplement-shelf staple for thirty years. A history of the claims,…
A desert state, an Israeli partner and 50,000 saplings. Rajasthan's olive trial is the most instructive frontier planting of the last twenty…
Texas growers discovered something counter-intuitive: their winters were not too cold for olives, they were too warm. Then a single freeze wiped…
Jordan is a small olive producer that almost nobody outside the region has tasted — because nearly all of its oil is…
Olive cravings are common enough to be a cliché, especially in pregnancy. Salt is the obvious answer and it is only half…
By Laura Kurtzman, After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to…
Un petit essai humain a montré qu'une préparation à l'oleuropéine apaisait les signes visibles d'un coup de soleil après exposition aux UVB.…
The olive tree survives heat and drought famously well. Its crop does not. A stage-by-stage account of what heatwaves actually do to…
Oregon is too wet, too cool and too prone to hard freezes for olives. A small band of Willamette Valley growers has…
A stainless tank, a spigot, and a shop that lets you taste before you buy. The olive oil tap room solves the…
An olive straight from the tree is inedible. Everything interesting about the fruit follows from that single fact — including the reason…
A California campus turned its nuisance olive trees into an oil programme, then published research that embarrassed half the imported oil on…
Australia's real olive oil achievement was not a medal. It was writing a national standard with both chemistry and a tasting panel…
What a modern olive-growing course actually teaches: planting density, irrigation, fruit fly, harvest timing and milling. The syllabus is short, the density…
Texas grew from four orchards to America's second olive state in under thirty years, then lost its harvest to a single February.…
Earthquake sensitive Orey forecasts during turbulent times ahead people will forego fancy processed foods and go back to Mother Nature’s finest staple–olive…
Olive oil will shave you, polish your furniture, moisturise your skin and silence your hinges — according to every household-tips list ever…
Extra virgin is a legal grade with numbers attached, not a compliment. Here are the actual tests a bottle must pass, the…
Olive trees survive British winters more easily than people assume. Producing a crop is another matter entirely — and the obstacle is…
Olive oil fraud is rarely a bottle of sunflower oil with a fake label. It is subtler, more profitable and much harder…
Governments announce olive projects far outside the Mediterranean every few years. What it actually takes to start an olive industry from nothing,…
Olive leaf is the grove's biggest by-product and the supplement industry's favourite raw material. What is actually in it, what the human…
A green olive and a black olive can come off the same branch of the same tree. Colour is a clock, not…