Workshop at UC Davis Olive Center - Table Olives at Home and How to Use Them on Saturday, April 29, 2023

This workshop, in collaboration with Don Landis, will teach you how to use your backyard olives for table production. We will cover topics like the tree biology, how the harvest affects flavors, processing methods of de-bittering and packaging and we will end with a tasting of delicious homemade table olives.

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Sebastopol’s Don Landis is the ‘Olive Guy’

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT, DIANNE REBER HART, TOWNS CORRESPONDENT | January 29, 2016

Don Landis’ quest for olives is comparable to a hard-core private investigator searching for clues, answers and eyewitnesses. His hunt for the largest just-right olives has taken him across the North Bay, staking out trees with full canopies rich with the meaty fruit. At times, he’s knocked on unsuspecting strangers’ doors …

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