Comments on: The Sunday News http://growersandgrocers.net/2006/09/17/the_sunday_news_7/ From farm to table, and all the stops along the way. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:31:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Marc http://growersandgrocers.net/2006/09/17/the_sunday_news_7/#comment-133 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:22:04 +0000 http://growersandgrocers.net/2006/09/17/the_sunday_news_7/#comment-133 Damage to ecosystems by olive plantations is probably on the way to California also. A few weeks ago, the SF Chronicle published a story about a massive expansion of olive "groves" (i.e., enormous monocultures) in California (link below):<br /> <br /> <blockquote><br /> California Olive Ranch is already the largest orchard for olive oil production in the United States, and the largest milling facility, producing 25 percent of California's olive oil. Now it is more than doubling in size with the planting of 500,000 olive trees on its 883-acre site in Glenn County.<br /> <br /> California Olive Ranch started business in 1999 in Oroville (Butte County), about an hour east of its Artois ranch, with more than 300,000 trees planted on 483 acres.<br /> </blockquote><br /> <br /> Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/27/BUGDDKNQJ41.DTL&type=printable Damage to ecosystems by olive plantations is probably on the way to California also. A few weeks ago, the SF Chronicle published a story about a massive expansion of olive “groves” (i.e., enormous monocultures) in California (link below):

California Olive Ranch is already the largest orchard for olive oil production in the United States, and the largest milling facility, producing 25 percent of California’s olive oil. Now it is more than doubling in size with the planting of 500,000 olive trees on its 883-acre site in Glenn County.

California Olive Ranch started business in 1999 in Oroville (Butte County), about an hour east of its Artois ranch, with more than 300,000 trees planted on 483 acres.

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/27/BUGDDKNQJ41.DTL&type=printable

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