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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] possible Southern niche market ?
  • Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:01:49 -0700

Toni Hawryluk wrote:

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tvoivozhd---well, you could certainly sell a modest amount of olive oil at farmer's markets and flea markets. Unfortunately the din of constant advertising has people looking for flavorless canola, corn, ye-e-ch, peanut oil in the supermarkets so I would hate to try to wedge in there.

Yes, you can grow olives in the sem--tropical deep South, though the flat terrain is not as olive-tree hospitable as the south-facing slopes to the Mediterranean found in Greece, and the Mediterranean tempers the heat of adjacent land better than does the Pacific Ocean. Olives are commercially grown in California, and are economically successful, though labor costs here are much higher than around the Mediterranean.

http://www.oliveoilsource.com/propagating_olive_trees.htm (seedling availability and propagation)
http://www.calolive.org/homecooks/facts.html (olive industry history in the U.S., acreage and location in California)






  • Re: [Homestead] possible Southern niche market ?, Tvoivozhd, 10/06/2004

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