Fresh Olives will go on sale Saturday, September 5th   Here we are at the backend of summer, most of the kids are returning to school. But more importantly, Fresh olives are growing, and it is almost that time again. For us, that means a lot of planning, coordination, work, and much more. For you, it is time for you …

Today we are excited bring you some great news… At 12:01 A.M. on Saturday (Friday night) we will be opening our website for Fresh Green Olive Sales.  As this year’s crop was a very small crop it has allowed the larger fruit to grow, yes, this means we will be able to offer Super Collasol Sevillano Olives. As many of you …

The bloom this year was barren or patchy at best, this will lead to minimal crop production. We are hopeful for larger fruit as that can happen with a short bloom or low amounts of fruit. This year we experienced a warmer winter followed by several cold weather incidents diminished what looked to be an excellent bloom. Unfortunately, with a …

Build Your Own Olive Flavor Have you wanted to cure olives but were not quite sure how? Maybe you missed the fresh olive season, or worse you didn’t cure enough to get you through until next season. Great News! Our new product will allow you make your own olive flavors without having to cure them first. Fresh Olives don’t get …

As Sales slow in our market places as well as online we must end our Fresh Green Olives sales. Effective 10/16/2017 at 12:01 A.M. Fresh Green Olives will no longer be available for sale until 2018. There is some good news we would like to share as well. After many requests and inquiries, we have decided to sell Fresh Black …

The 2017 Crop is going to be a large crop, unfortunately this means we will have a lot of fruit but it will not be on the larger (Super Colossal) size. We will offer Colossal, Jumbo, Giant and Mammoth. We will be opening the Fresh Olives sales on September 8th at 5PM PST. Manzanilla and Lucques will follow 7 to …

2017 Fresh Olive Update   The olives are looking good, all varieties are growing nicely. The fruit size is still up in the air, sometimes a large quantity of bloom will lead to a smaller fruit size, but there are a lot of factors that affect fruit size. We will have to watch for heavily fruited limbs and trim those …

This year has all the potential to be a great year for olives.  All varieties have more bloom than usual. If the rest of the Olive maturation goes like it has been, we could have a bumper crop and broken branches. The olive bloom pictures were taken a couple of weeks ago.  Note that the different varieties are in slightly …

Effective 7:30 am PST 12-1-14 we have stopped offering fresh black olives in any size.  If you missed this years offering, follow us on Twitter or Facebook to get the quickest notice of availability.

We are selling Fresh Black Sevillanos in one size range Super Colossal/Colossal.  We are not getting enough smaller fruit to sell. We started the season 11-13 and have been surprised how many orders have come in.  We are doing our best to get these out as quickly as possible.

We will start taking orders for Fresh Black Olives this Thursday at 10 PM PST, that’s 11-13-14 at 10 PM Pacific Standard Time. We will not take orders before this, even if you call. There is no waiting list. Due to the cold weather coming in, we can not guarantee that this fresh product will not arrive frozen. If they …

If you order Fresh Black Olives to cure at home, be aware that these olives are at a fragile stage.  If some of your olives are soft, consider setting them aside to prepare differently.  They can still be brined, but consider taking the soft ones, puncture or slice them and putting them in a strong brine, then bake or fry in …

We had to disable the ordering of Sevillano fresh green olives as the fruit picking has ended. We will fill the orders we’ve taken. Black fresh olives will be the next offering, we hope to offer them by mid November. But watch the website for the latest info as this has been a weird year for fresh olives.

Sorry but we are out of fresh green olives. Our next offering will be black olives, which should/could begin by mid November. This is a guess right now and it’s been a weird year for fresh olives, watch our site or become a follower in Twitter or Facebook to get the most current information.

Many of our loyal Fresh Olive Customers are already starting to call in and inquire about the 2012 Olive Crop. While it is to soon to say for sure, I can tell you that after looking at the bus on the trees we are very hopeful for a good crop. There are a few things that will affect the the …

Water Cure/Brine Cure We sell fresh black olives for home curing when they are in season. Cut olives length-ways, two cuts to about 1/8 inch into the meat. Soak in water for 8 to 10 days, changing water daily. A salt/acid brine of 1 lb. of salt per gallon of water, then add one quart of red wine vinegar for …