Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Olive tree in a backyard bed Olive trees are ideally suited to hot and dry climates and can be very versatile plants for any ...

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 ...

If you are a home gardener in Napa Valley, you can successfully grow olive trees. Olives are one of the most popular trees in the valley, and with a few pointers extrapolated from University of ...

Yes, you can grow fresh fruit on your balcony.

While the olive may or may not be the choice of garnish for your cocktail (for James Bond it certainly wasn’t), this fruit has established itself in multiple civilizations since time immemorial. And ...

The world’s top producers, Spain and Italy, have faced a series of plagues that led one Italian newspaper to refer to 2014 as “ the black year of Italian oil .” Ninety-five percent of the world’s ...

I received a query from the folks behind Miralon, a trendy proposed development in south Palm Springs. I took one look and had deja vu from 2017 and went back to check my records. Yes, this project ...

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 ...