Yes. Olives have grown in Mexico since the 1520s, today mainly in Baja California. Where they grow, how Mexicans use olive oil, and dishes with olives.
Read the story →Olive tree zone guide: olives grow outdoors in USDA zones 8 to 11. What each zone means, microclimates, pots for cold areas and where…
November 6, 2026Olive tree leaves yellow, curling or dropping? Check the season, soil, roots, light, recent changes and cold, in that order, then read each symptom.
November 3, 2026How big do olive trees get? Usually 20 to 30 feet in the ground and 4 to 10 in a pot. Size by variety, growth per year, and how pruning…
October 31, 2026Straight off the tree, an olive is inedible — bitter enough to make you wince. Curing is how we fix that, and you can do it at home…
Kalamata are ripened and brine-cured. Tinned black olives are picked green and oxidised. Why one tastes of wine and the other of almost nothing.
An olive that is delicious from the jar can wreck a dish, because heat does three things to it: it drives out salt, it softens the flesh, and…
In a village in Crete stands an olive tree up to 4,000 years old — still making olives. A timeline of everything it has outlived, and the one…
A glut of summer herbs and a bottle of olive oil add up to free flavour all winter — if…
An airport explosives test adapted by Córdoba chemists screens olive oil for fraud in 15 minutes. How it works, how…
The Consumer Reports olive oil test: 23 extra virgins tasted, only 9 made the grade. California oils won; big brands…
U.S. importers ask the FDA for an olive oil standard of identity defining every grade and test. What the NAOOA…
Uruguay applies to join the International Olive Council at its first session in Latin America, as Argentina presses for a…
Greek olive mills face a new wastewater law that 2,300 three phase mills cannot meet. What it demands and why…
Its beauty, its origins, its history: the varieties, the fields, the pictures.
“What does lavender have to do with olives? Well, I’m glad you asked. I just love both, and to me they’re the perfect match.”
