You can plant an olive pit and grow an olive tree either indoors or outside. Use an olive pit from an organic tree, rather than from a jar of olives you got at the store. Be patient! It can take years ...

As gardeners branch out, growing more and more of their own food, their thoughts often turn to those expensive jars of olives and bottles of olive oil, and how it would be great to produce their own.

I write this as I sit on the edge of a canal in Seville, Spain. I am immersing myself in the Mediterranean way of eating. They refer to the olive tree as the “tree of life.” I have learned more than I ...

Q: I would like to plant a row of olives along my driveway. Do olive trees require special soil? Are there specific varieties of olives I should choose? A: Olive trees are native to the Mediterranean, ...