Olives have a deep-rooted history in the Mediterranean, where they've been cultivated for thousands of years and are central ...

(Editor’s Note: Methods for water-cured and dry salt cured olives follows this article.) CHICO — Don Landis is the Johnny Appleseed-type folk hero of home-cured olives in Northern California. A jar of ...

If you have started growing your very own olive tree and know how to identify a good quality table olive, you could also look at starting your very own home ‘curing process’. Olives must be cured ...

The olive harvest begins late September and finishes as late as early March. Green olives are picked from late September to about the end of November. Blond olives are collected between October and ...

I was weaned on my Greek grandmother's olives. Her basement was olive central, and the acrid smell of her enterprise permeated the walls, leaving a mark in my memory and in the cavernous room that ...