In the ongoing pursuit of new cash crops for Hawaii, some farmers are planting Mediterranean olive trees as a possibility. Several farms on Maui have planted hundreds of plants with the first full ...

Olive trees, to me, are an intrinsic part of the character, look and feel of the undulating landscape of the Mediterranean. Alongside grapevines, they’re everywhere in Italy, Spain, France, and ...

If you enjoy the savory taste of olives, then you should consider saving the pit so you can grow your very own tree. Native ...

North-East Spain is home to olive trees so old that they are known as ‘millennium-old’. A group of scientists have now studied their age. The oldest is to be found in the Catalan region of Montsià and ...

If you ask me, olive trees reign as the crown jewel in most Mediterranean gardening setups. And even if your gardenscape is not limited to one particular theme, these trees are a popular planting ...

The 50 acres of olive trees on Dunham Jewett’s farm in Moulton, about 100 miles east of San Antonio, look like a war zone. What had been 10- to 12-foot-high trees with wide canopies are now nothing ...

Q:The courtyard of our house in Sonoma County is built around an olive tree that is about 30 years old. Most years we get a very good crop of olives, which we cure. Even though we do a light pruning ...

Q: My single backyard tree is healthy and produces abundantly every year. However, the olives are inedible. I took a couple of them to West End Nursery in San Rafael and showed them that every olive ...