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 ...

Q: I received a 2-year-old olive tree grown in a 15-inch container. The brochure attached advised planting in the ground 15 feet away from building structures. My tree is 5 feet high with a ½-inch ...

Bill MacElroy was working as the co-owner of a market research company in San Francisco when he bought a 14-acre former sheep farm in Sebastopol in 2001. His goal was to plant olive trees and make ...