Field Report: Notes From Our Regenerative Organic Certified Farm

Compost 101 - Frantoio Grove
Compost 101
Welcome to Composting 101! Today, we'll explore the different types of compost, the importance of carbon to nitrogen ratios, and several methods of creating compost on your farm or garden. Read more...
Innovations in Milling Techniques - Frantoio Grove
Innovations in Milling Techniques
At Frantoio Grove, we work to always improve our practices to improve the quality of oil we produce. We've been working on some changes and are excited to talk about... Read more...
Field Report: Regenerative Agriculture: How we got here - Frantoio Grove
Field Report: Regenerative Agriculture: How we got here
Over the last 6 years, we've had 3 years without enough fruit to pick. We had some issues with the timing of our pruning and nutrition management, but we have... Read more...
2021 Harvest
Harvest is just getting going this year, and it sure has been a heck of a month getting up and running. Our major equipment upgrade - a new decanter that would allow us to nearly double our daily production - had multiple issues upon startup, requiring a last minute scramble to get our old decanter re-installed. As soon as we were ready to harvest, the atmospheric river came and rained us out of our field for another week. these delays, however, seem to have been a blessing in disguise! Our... Read more...
2020 Harvest
2020 was another rough year on the Grove. Following a heavy crop and hard pruning, we were expecting a down year, but heavy winds during a light bloom took our crop from light to paltry. There was fruit in the orchard but it was sparse and picking (by hand) was bound to prove futile. Our saving grace was a call from the organic orchard in the North Bay our trees came from - with the uncertainty from Covid, they were going to have some extra fruit and did we want... Read more...
2019 Harvest
After a disappointing previous year, we had a tremendous harvest this year. The trees were dripping with fruit and the fruit set was so heavy we had a hard time giving the trees enough water to keep the fruit at ideal moisture content for milling. Dry fruit can mean a bitter oil, but we managed to get a great deal of fruit quality to balance a very pungent oil. This is one of our favorite years for oil quality. We taste lots of bright, fresh cut grass and tomato leaf,... Read more...
2018 Harvest
Due to a very warm Feb/2018 and a hard freeze in Mar/2018 there were absolutly no olives. We will soon sell out of the 2017 harvest. Due to the fact that the oil was filtered and stored in ideal conditions the 2017 is still an excellent vibrant oil. This happened all over the stae with some growers down 30% and some of us down 100% Read more...