POPE FRANCISCO CONSECRATES HIS OLIVE OIL TOURISM PROJECT

POPE FRANCISCO CONSECRATES HIS OLIVE OIL TOURISM PROJECT

In the words of Juan Vilar, «olive oil tourism is a collateral activity whose objective is to enhance the main activity by making the olive mill or olive farm more competitive, above all by reducing seasonality, establishing barriers to entry through singularization...
THE OLIVE TREE IS STARTING TO OUTGROW THE PLANET

THE OLIVE TREE IS STARTING TO OUTGROW THE PLANET

It is said that the oldest woody plants on the planet are the olive tree, the palm, the fig tree and the vine; for the area that concerns us, the olive tree has historically been cultivated in the geographical area between the parallels 35° and 45° north latitude, in...
FLORIDA OLIVE NOTES

FLORIDA OLIVE NOTES

Olives have been cultivated in Florida for over 300 years.  The Spanish planted olives at St. Augustine in 1565 and Mediterranean Minorcan settlers planted them near Daytona Beach in the 1750s.  A U.S. government report from the 1920’s talks of a «35 foot bearing...