Shawn Addison from The Olive Oil Source gives an update on the olive milling prospects for Southern and Central California.

Clearly, at The Olive Oil Source we take the crafting and care of olive oil very seriously. But that doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy a little levity.

FACT OR FICTION? Olives are a fruit.

It’s time for a revamped OliveOilSource.com website: simpler and more modern, mobile friendly, yet as good a source for all olive oil information.

Are olives dyed to make them black? It depends….

If you are planting a new olive orchard, geographic considerations are the first and most important factor to understand.

Things to think about before bottling your olive oil.

The 2019 olive harvest and milling report.

It's time to get ready for olive harvest.

The fruit is setting and the olive crop looks promising.

Ethics in labeling: why is it so hard?

More thoughts about the regulations and complications of labeling California Olive Oil.

It is hard work to get everybody to agree on labeling laws to protect the consumer. Should it be?

At The Olive Oil Source, we believe that flavored olive oils should not be called extra virgin.

It is hard to compete with Super High Density olive oil producers. Smaller producers need to distinguish their olive oil.

Super High Density farming key to the success of domestic olive oil production.

Not everyone understands the underlying effects of tariffs, where the money generated from them gets spent, how they are applied, and how the consumer ends up paying the bill. Here is an explanation from the perspective of The Olive Oil Source using our bottle sales as an example.

This is the time of year when a lot of people with a few landscape trees or hobby orchardists see a crop ripening and decide to try to make oil with their fruit. Frequently tree owners are unfamiliar with the existence of the olive fly, the effects of the fly on the quality of olive oil, and how to identify olive fly damage to fruit.

I took some grief about my post on August 9th, among other things being accused of doing "marketing" which sort of perplexed me.

I have been following, at some remove, the steady flow of lawsuits in the olive oil industry, not in small part through The Olive Oil Times but also through other media.