Olive Oil Adventure

After much gnashing of teeth and the near destruction of one keyboard, the new site design is ready to go. We have a few database issues to work out before we transition the entire Sylverleaf site over to the new look, but that’ll happen this weekend. There might be a hiccup or two over [...]

We haven’t yet planted our latest batch of 100 trees, but we’re moving in that direction. We picked the trees up from our favorite nursery in 2″ pots. They were woefully rootbound and nearing their end… We transplanted all of them into larger 4″ pots where they will now grow for a month or so. [...]

It’s true.
I can hardly believe it, but Paradise is currently being evacuated… I don’t mean to make light of the situation, but this must be the end of the world.
The tiny town of Paradise, CA was evacuated a few days ago due to raging wild fires. It is a small, hip town, located in [...]

We finally received the results from the Olive Oils of the World competition, held in conjunction with the LA County Fair. This is one of the premier olive oil competitions in the entire world. For 2008, more than 500 olive oils from all around the globe were entered into the blind tasting. We are proud [...]

We have been running non-stop lately. With the warmer weather comes the daily grind of chores in and around the orchard. Everything is growing quickly and profusely and we struggle just to keep up.
The olive bloom is finished for this year. The bloom was very strong with large bunches of flowers on the end of [...]

It seems like we have been working on the bottling room project for, oh, about a year…  Finally, the state inspector came to check out our new room and we passed the rigorous inspection with flying colors. Sylverleaf is now one step closer to being fully self-sufficient!

Now that the bottling room is all done, we’re [...]