Olive farmers look for a rebound year
• Biggest spring bloom in years.
• Just in time to meet growing demand.
This could be a “rebound year” in California’s olive groves.
Farmers say the growing season is off to a good start.
“We just started blooming this month and we’re excited. We haven’t seen a bloom this big in quite a few years,” says Jamie Johansson, an olive grower in Oroville. “Last year we had about 20 percent of our normal crop tonnage.”
Much of last year’s crop was ruined by cold, rainy weather during the bloom.
There’s particular optimism among farmers who make their crop into olive oil. They say they’ve been pressed to meet a boom in demand.
In Davis this week, the University of California sponsors a conference at which experts will recommend new standards in branding and promoting olive oil.
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A Sumptous Salad of Olive Oil, Fennel & Blood Orange
Summer is the time for salads, and summer is coming close. Here’s a salad that is a bit different, but really great for those hot summer days.
You will need:
3 bulbs of fennel
1 orange squeezed for its juice
2 cups of mesclun salad mix
1/3 cup of olives with the pips removed
2 oranges split into individual segments
1/2 cup of parsley leaves
1/3 cup of extra virgin olive oil
1 lemon squeezed for its juice
1/4 lb of the finest Parmesan cheese
salt and pepper for seasoning
Take the fennel and trip the tops. Also remove or trim any outer leaves that need it. Cut each one in half lengthwise and slice them thinly. Place in a bowl and add the lemon juice, tossing it all together.
Take another small bowl and add the olive oil, orange juice, seasoned with a little salt and pepper. Whisk it all together.
Take yet another bowl and add the olives, orange segments, parsley leaves, mesclun salad mix and the fennel together. Toss them all gently and shave the parmesan cheese liberally over the top.
Serve up to six people and enjoy!
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Our Heartfelt Love For A Heart’s Best Friend
Sales of olive oil have risen by almost 40% over the past five or so years. Olive oil is now the best selling oil of all, easily outstripping vegetable oils and other oils. This is good news. Not just because olive oil tastes so good, but because it has been proven to be better for us.
The diet of the Mediterranean people has long been recognised as being a healthy one. Olive oil has long been suspected of being the major cause. In more recent years medical science has confirmed this – olive oil is indeed an extremely healthy food, and it can help enormously to keep the heart pumping away for years to come.
Take a good long look at the people in countries like France, Spain, Italy and Greece. They are healthy, by and large. They eat olive oil – in huge quantities. They treat it like fine wines and savour the sheer magnificence of a good extra virgin. And of course, they seem to live longer with less health problems. Surely that alone is worth a little olive oil in your diet!
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Disease prevention turns over new leaf
RMIT University researchers have described the promising cardioprotective effects of an Australian olive leaf extract at the American Heart Association’s 7th Annual Conference in Denver, USA.
Indu Singh, who led the RMIT research team, said the olive extract reduced blood platelet aggregation in laboratory investigations.
“Polyphenols from this olive leaf extract significantly inhibited platelet aggregation in the laboratory. This has important benefits as the antiplatelet effects in olive leaves may offer a degree of protection from thrombosis and other cardiovascular diseases,” said Ms Singh.
The findings, which have since been published in the medical journal, Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, are yet another positive result for these unique liquid olive leaf extracts, which are made from fresh olive leaves, for maintaining cardiovascular health and normal heart function.
The new findings follow Australian and European research linking the polyphenols in olive leaves to lowered blood pressure and antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.
Olive Leaf Australia’s Corporate Development Director, Julian Archer, said he was excited about the results generated by one of his company’s products.
“We receive many reports from customers whose doctors are very happy with the cardiovascular and heart health benefits their patients are receiving from using the product,” said Mr Archer.
“It is very encouraging to see scientific studies supporting this and we expect results from further comprehensive clinical trials in the near future.”
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First 340 indigenous Maltese olive trees planted
The first 340 indigenous Maltese olive trees produced following the launch of the Project for the Revival of the Maltese Olive (PRIMO) in January last year are being planted in various localities in the country.
A batch of 50 indigenous Maltese olive trees of the Bidnija variety was planted yesterday by Bank of Valletta employees in Gudja during a news conference that was addressed by Sam Cremona, who gave details about the progress being registered by the PRIMO project. The news conference was also addressed by Francis Agius, Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture and Fisheries, and Charles Borg, executive head at the CEO’s office of Bank of Valletta.
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