After two years of drought, disease, and soaring prices, the olive oil sector is bouncing back with a strong 2024/25 harvest.

Men wearing orange vests march in an olive-growers protest in Rome, Feb. 14, 2018, to demand urgent measures in favor of olive oil producers impacted by hard frosts and Xylella, an olive tree disease.

An olive tree burns near Trepuzzi, a town in the Italian region of Apulia devastated by a lethal olive tree disease. (Photo by Salvatore Mongiò via Courthouse News) This “phase of destruction,” as ...

The infected trees were uprooted because they were found in a buffer zone: By creating a firewall, the Italian government is trying to prevent the disease from spreading further north. But even ...

One potential olive tree disease to look out for is the lesion-causing peacock leaf spot, which is the result of a fungus. You can recognize it by its dark spots that are sometimes ringed with ...

Olive trees. Not too surprising since there is a 3,000-year-old olive tree in Crete that is still producing olives.

Q: I have a 4-year-old Anna apple tree that was broken in a windstorm in June 2021. Since the top end of the main trunk was broken, I decided to tie it back in place and see if it would recover.

Since we routinely have five months without rain during our summer dry season, Tehachapi gardeners often seek plants that can ...