Neither Pam or I grew up in farming families. This is something we had to learn on our own... and we pestered a lot of our farmer friends. We chose to grow olives to make oil after studying a variety of other seasonal and permanent crops and what we could do with our soil and weather environment. We are a very small grower, hardly on the radar of anything one would consider as a commercial producer but we enjoy what we do. The fruits of our labor to coin an old phrase is that we produce a limited quantity of extremely high quality olive oil. If you have ever visited San Jose, California, you would know about Sara Winchester. Sarah came to believe that if she continued building, she would live forever. Pam and I have no such notion...but some people might think we are related to Sarah. In addition to our full time jobs and farming, Pam and I are always constructing, fixing or making something. We justfinished building from scratch a 28 x 40 garage. Ive been busy welding an experimental harvest machine born from the joint idea of my good friend Jon Fadhl (another olive grower) and myself. I have a rare 1937. JOHN DEERE AOS in the process of restoration. And there are always many, many projects and repairs to be made around the farm. Some of our city friends think we work, work, work. Not all the time but we do work a lot and they have no idea how gratifying it is. Woodland is within the County of Yolo which is located east of Napa and Sonoma Counties in Northern California. The olive trees grown here enjoy the warm sun in a moderately dry north-central valley California climate not unlike other regions in the world whereolives grow best. Our soil and climate which is less than ideal for other crops is absolutely perfect for olives. It must be good because many other growers are planting oil producing olive orchards all around us since we put ours in.

Address: Woodland, CA 95695
Telephone: 530-661-7418
Website: http://www.storyoliveoil.com/