By PJ Bremier, “I’ve got 38 of the most wonderful olive trees and they produce tremendously,” Jim Simon says gleefully as he…
Machines have harvested oil olives for years. Table olives fought back — because a bruise that vanishes in a bottle of oil…
One tiny fly can ruin a whole olive crop from the inside. The story of the olive fruit fly in California is…
Picking olives by hand is slow and costly, so growers dreamed of machines. The quiet revolution that made it work was not…
The mill, not the grove, is where good fruit becomes good oil — or gets quietly ruined. Speed, temperature and oxygen are…