If you have been reading this blog for a few years, you may remember our first adventure in harvesting olives and pressing them into oil. Earlier this month was olive mission #3! It was such a cold day that I stayed home with Felix while Joe and the Golden Bear crew headed to the orchards [...]

I had a feeling since the sudden appearance of agave nectar that something wasn’t quite right about it all…..it turns out that much of the commercial agave syrup is actually very low-quality and even fraudulent in its claims of being true agave….. My friend Amigo Bob sent this link to me, check it out from [...]

You may have wondered why good olive oil can be so expensive…..well I now know why! Because it is HARD WORK to make!! A group of us (Me and Joe, LLAN, Heaven and Earth Farm and a beautiful French family) spent all day yesterday harvesting 4000 pounds of olives from an abandoned orchard not far [...]