Olive oil is often sold with miracle claims. The honest picture is more modest and more interesting: what the evidence actually supports,…
Olive trees swing between a heavy year and a light one — a natural rhythm called alternate bearing that shapes harvests, prices…
By PJ Bremier, “I’ve got 38 of the most wonderful olive trees and they produce tremendously,” Jim Simon says gleefully as he…
New Zealand is a tiny, young olive-oil country that quietly makes some of the freshest extra virgin on earth — thanks to…
One tiny fly can ruin a whole olive crop from the inside. The story of the olive fruit fly in California is…