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 [...]

Get Your Golden Bear Here!! Why Olive Oil? Olive oil’s health benefits The greatest exponent of monounsaturated fat is olive oil, and it is a prime component of the Mediterranean Diet. Olive oil is a natural juice which preserves the taste, aroma, vitamins and properties of the olive fruit. Olive oil is the only vegetable [...]

With the olive oil freshly pressed and ready to be divided, the only sensable way to celebrate was by throwing a pizza party! Fresh sourdough crust and vegetables from the farms…..the harvesters gathered at In The Kitchen to try out the Golden Bear Olive Oil…….a bit peppery and grassy were the words people used to [...]

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 [...]