An olive mill works about forty days a year and sits idle for the other three hundred. That single fact explains the…
Olive trees will grow happily in Florida. Getting them to fruit is another matter entirely — and the reason is a number…
Texas growers discovered something counter-intuitive: their winters were not too cold for olives, they were too warm. Then a single freeze wiped…
By Laura Kurtzman, After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to…
Oregon is too wet, too cool and too prone to hard freezes for olives. A small band of Willamette Valley growers has…