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Text/photos by Kathy Edenhofer (Master gardener), If you are looking for a unique item for your landscape, here is something that might peak your interest. Tucked away in Citra is a little jewel of a tree farm owned and operated by Tony and Shirley Valenza. At the Olive Branch Tree Farm they grow and sell […]

By Larry Gordon, Take 130 trees dropping olives on campus walkways. Add in students seeking prankish respite from their studies. Mix in a French-born university president with a taste for Mediterranean cuisine. That’s the formula for making olive oil at Caltech. The institution better known for rocket science is launching its own brand of the […]

In order to develope organic agriculture in Tunisia and raise more awareness in the farmers of this very promising market in the future says, journalist Ridha Bahlous in Allafrica, a colloquium has been organized recently, which was chosen to promote this form of agriculture. The Nefza region places natural potentials such as wide spread forests, […]

People living in the Mediterranean area who use olive oil as their main source of fat have the world’s lowest mortality rate due to cardio-vascular illness. Finland and the United States, where people consume the highest amounts of saturated fat, have the highest. Olive oil contains more monounsaturated fatty acids than any other fat or […]

ISLINGTON gardens are starting to resemble shady Italian olive groves as hundreds of gardeners buy Mediterranean plants to cope with the warmer climate. With the borough already sweltering in one of the hottest Aprils on record, garden shops are making bumper sales of olive trees, phoenix palms and Mediterranean herbs. The hardy plants will be […]