Olive trees swing between a heavy year and a light one — a natural rhythm called alternate bearing that shapes harvests, prices…
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…
Growers keep pushing the olive north into cooler, wetter country than it ever knew. The prize is distinctive oil; the risk is…