Why olive harvests can halve from one year to the next — the biology of alternate bearing, the weather that makes it…
The line between ‘extra virgin’ and the lesser grades is drawn by a single number you will almost never see on the…
By Cecilia Parsons, This year’s “off year” table olive crop looks to be thin and scattered statewide. Olive growers and processors met…
Olive oil has soothed Mediterranean skin for millennia, and the cosmetics industry quietly leans on it still — especially one refined ingredient…
A bad California olive crop is really a story about two Spanish varieties, a habit of on-and-off cropping, and how much a…