olive oil and green olives in a dish next to an olive oil bottle - Diana Vyshniakova / 500px/Getty Images For some reason, we tend to think of the Mediterranean — Italy, Greece, and Spain — when ...

SACRAMENTO — If Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry has her way, the olive oil industry can use “California” in their product labeling and marketing only if California olives are used in making it.

An oil boom is underway in the state's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend toward healthy fare have transformed a profession as old as civilization: olive production for the extra ...

OROVILLE — For much of the last century, California olive farming has focused on the pitted black table variety that children -- and some adults -- like to eat off their fingertips. It’s been a tiny ...

From the academic halls of Harvard to the rural hillsides of Marin and Sonoma counties and onto the stately aisles of the California Capitol, a David-and-Goliath-type battle is brewing in the olive ...

To people whose knowledge of olives has been confined to a row of bottled olives on the shelf of a grocery store or to barrels or kegs of the fruit near the store counter it will be news to learn that ...

PETALUMA, Calif. — With its verdant hills full of fruit trees, calming ponds and tastings of an olive oil so precious it is typically drizzled rather than poured, McEvoy Ranch could be mistaken for ...

As many consumers have become more concerned about health, Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) is experiencing sales growth in the U.S. California-based companies are driving this trend, with more than 400 ...