Livermore is an affordable choice for wine-tasting in Northern California. Rancho Milagro in Livermore offers tastings also -- of olive oil. 

An adage from the Mediterranean region offers a recommendation about how to prune olive trees. Our experience demonstrates another reason to follow the adage for the health of the trees.

When to harvest olives that will turn into award-wining extra virgin olive oil?Weather, personnel for picking, and availability of the mill are our three big factors, after the primary one...