Why do growers rip out perfectly good table-olive trees? Because the maths of a hand-picked, bruise-prone crop rarely adds up against almonds…
California's McEvoy Ranch closes each harvest by bottling olio nuovo — the year's first, unfiltered oil. It is a story about why…
In California's wine country, the olive harvest follows hard on the grapes — a quiet second season with its own festivals, blessings…
When olive prices climb, so does olive theft — whole harvests lifted off tarps overnight. Why the fruit is such easy prey,…
Wine country keeps turning to olives — and the reason is a clever trick of machinery: the same harvester that shakes grapes…