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By Kerana Todorov, The two Napa Valley chefs — Fox works at Napa’s Ubuntu and Cognetti is executive chef at St. Helena’s Tra Vigne — will receive a delivery of freshly-pressed “olio nuovo” this week from the Dickson Napa Ranch, a hillside property high above Jamieson Canyon Road. “I love it,” said Cognetti, who uses […]

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County supervisors, in an effort to support wineries and olive growers, are lowering the amount of transportation fees growers are required to pay. The fee will be based only on the square footage of the commercial use area, such as wine/olive oil tasting and sales facilities. The processing facilities or light industrial component will be […]

“A tree will produce and produce. You can neglect it, abuse it, forget about it, not water it and it’ll still produce olives,” says Dan Flynn, a U.C. Davis scientist. They stand as immovable sentinels of the past. Many of these giant mission olive trees are almost four stories tall and at nearly a century […]

By Reed Fujii, LODI – Jeff Colombini is the president of Lodi Farming, a large diversified farming operation. Still, early last week, he found himself on a towering harvester clattering down rows of a 3-year-old olive orchard, gathering fruit destined to yield a greenish-yellow gold in the form of oil. No, he wasn’t short of […]