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

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

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

The tree killer is a bacterium called xylella fastidiosa. It has killed millions of olive trees in Italy and is now threatening Spain and Greece. These countries produce 95% of Europe's olive oil.

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.

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 ...

The famous olive trees of Puglia are ravaged by disease – here's how we can save them A common, humble field bug is spreading a disease that has already infected millions of olive trees in Italy.