When you grow an olive tree from a pit, the tree you cultivate will not be a replica of the original. “Olive trees grown from pits are genetically different from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why buy fruit trees and shrubs from a nursery when you can propagate them yourself easily and for free? Learn which fruiting ...

Olive trees planted two generations ago in a fertile valley high in the mountains of Lebanon today link many Northeast Ohio families of Lebanese origin. “When my grandfather planted his olive trees in ...

Jim Engelke, owner of Fallbrook Olive Oil, bought an avocado grove in east Fallbrook eight years ago. With the North American Free Trade Agreement allowing the importation of avocados from south of ...

Olive trees are resilient, don’t mind the drought or rocky soils, and can provide a bounty of olives for the table and or the press. But there is a fly in the olive oil that threatens the crop. Contra ...

Q: I am interested in getting an olive tree to grow indoors. I have 10-foot ceilings and a very bright space with extremely large windows and eastern exposure. I think olive trees are beautiful and I ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. After a brutal frost swept through Le Castella last year, many of the olive trees in the small Calabrian ...

A new study has unraveled the earliest evidence for domestication of a fruit tree, researchers report. The researchers analyzed remnants of charcoal from the Chalcolithic site of Tel Zaf in the Jordan ...

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