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By Julia Hollister, A small Sierras foothill olive oil company has risen to the same exalted status as California wines. Apollo Olive Oil Company, in the tiny Yuba County community of Oregon House, received the honor recently at an international competition in Italy where hundreds of olive oils from around the world were judged.

A New Zealand-designed and built olive harvester has begun to comb the crop out of trees on Roger Armstrong’s Nelson groves this season.

By Nina Roberts, Although New York is thousands of miles from Spain, Greece, Australia, or any other olive oil-producing country, it offers an outstanding variety of extra virgin olive oil to buy, sample, learn about, and consume. If ‘‘first cold press,’’ ‘‘unfiltered,’’ and ‘‘grassy overtones’’ are phrases that make your mouth tingle with a ‘‘peppery […]

Jamie Johansson can be found every Saturday at the Chico Farmers’ Market, hawking bottles of his Lodestar Farms olive oil by offering dips of bread.This is how California’s olive oil producers are squeezing their way into a crowded market: one bottle at a time.

York’s marvellous Mediterranean style climate is perfect for growing olives and from April to July the Olive Harvest is in full swing.