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When Life Gives You Olives…Archive for November, 2008Thursday, November 20th, 2008 It’s here… The latest release (and first of this harvest season) is now available. Beth just returned from a Marin farmer’s market and sold nearly every bottle that she had! If you’ve tried Verde, you know why people are crazy for it. I mean, it’s the SOLE reason that I wanted to become an olive [...] No Comments - Posted in Daily,Health,Orchard Stories by GeneThursday, November 20th, 2008 On the 15th and 16th of November, we completed our Arbequina harvest in Sutter county. These tiny olives pack an awesome and very unique flavor. To make them even better, they’re quite easy to harvest! The branches tend to hang down, so you just wrap your fingers around the branch (loosely) and pull towards your [...] No Comments - Posted in Animals,Daily,Orchard Stories,Recipes,Silly Moments,Weather by GeneMonday, November 10th, 2008 On Saturday and Sunday, we took a small crew to Sutter county to harvest the tiny and ultra-flavorful Arbequina olives. We pulled more than 1100 pounds of fruit off of the trees while the sun shone brightly. The weather was per-fect and allowed for us to harvest in our t-shirts! It’s a rare occasion when [...] No Comments - Posted in Daily,Orchard Stories,Weather by GeneThursday, November 6th, 2008 On Saturday, November 8, our harvest season will officially begin. We’ll be harvesting Arbequina olives from orchards in Sutter county. These tiny olives are about 3/8″ in diameter (tiny) but pack a flavor that is unlike any other. Just awesome. I usually look forward to this time of the year, but not so much this [...] No Comments - Posted in Daily,Orchard Stories by Gene |