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By Kim Cuby, PETALUMA, Calif. – Seated at a small table, listening to her grandson’s high school classmates on stage, Nan Tucker McEvoy looks more like a proud matriarch than a groundbreaking agricultural entrepreneur. But it’s McEvoy’s olives, not the jazz, that drew nearly 600 friends and visitors to her annual harvest party last weekend […]

By Ben Brown, The Daily Journal Although picking and processing may be winding down among the county’s grape growers, for the growing number of farmers who have dipped into the olive market, the season has only just begun. At Olivino, at the foot of Duncan Peak in Hopland, where a new olive press has been […]

Stuck at $2.6 Billion, U.S. Sales of Fermented Vegetables Could Be In a Pickle! Despite a consumer awakening to the probiotic health benefits of fermented vegetables, sales have been flat for the past five years, hovering at $2.6 billion, according to Pickles, Olives, and Relishes in the U.S., a new report from market research publisher […]

Wild mushrooms with garlic and parsley, made with extra-virgin olive oil, are sure to be a hit at the holiday table. NEW YORK — Holiday’s are a time for welcoming guests to the table. This year, make a place for olive oil at your gathering — be it a casual buffet, multi-course dinner or simple […]

By Judith Salkin, Let’s face it, a weekend of doing nothing but eating fine food, drinking fine wine, listening to fine music and eyeing fine art sounds like a pretty good way to get the desert’s social season off to a fine start. If this sounds like a way you’d like to spend your time […]