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The Farm Market at California State University, Fresno will present its Summer Harvest Festival on Saturday, June 30, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event, based on last year’s popular Summer Solstice Celebration, will feature various cooking and BBQ demonstrations and samplings of farm products produced and/or processed by Fresno State students at the […]

Pic by Michael McCollum, Aricle by Reed Fujii, LODI – Winegrapes are a $200 million-a-year business in San Joaquin County. But now a series of newspaper ads, touting better profits for olive oil, is asking Lodi-area growers to consider replacing their vineyards. The aim is to roughly double the acreage of olives grown in “super-high-density” […]

By Bev Bennett, Gold, olive green, citrine: all colors of olive oils. When you’re reaching for oil to use in a salad dressing or for cooking, color isn’t the most important consideration. Instead, you want oil that’s appropriate to your dish, says Alessio Carli, who makes olive oil and wine for Pietra Santa Winery near […]

olive growers in the Central Valley saying damage from the severe January freeze has become evident in California olive groves. The Olive Growers Council says young trees planted in colder areas seem hardest hit. One farmer lost about half of a 30-acre grove. The freeze also damaged bud wood on mature trees, which will produce […]

By Harold McGee, FOR a newcomer to the world of olive oil connoisseurship, the sound effects from the 20 or so tasters at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, Calif., were startling. The low murmurs of discussion were punctuated by loud, sharp slurps, and loud, sharp coughs. Slurps and coughs, hour after hour. On […]