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Festival Celebrates Newest New Olive Oil

Dave Jones — November 16, 2021 - 10:06am

The swag�� Olive Center will hold an Olio Nuovo Festival this weekend to celebrate the release of the center’s newest “new oil,” the freshest extra virgin olive oil available, produced in collaboration with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation and its Séka Hills line of agricultural products.

The Saturday afternoon festival (Nov. 20) will comprise various events at swag��’ Downtown Store and on campus, including tastings and a workshop on the care of olive trees in your own yard.

100 Percent Campus-Grown: Gunrock and Wolfskill Olive Oils

Dave Jones — July 20, 2017 - 12:09pm

From Slippery Mess to Success

Olive trees at swag��, the world’s No. 1 agricultural school, go back a long, long time. But the campus didn’t get into the olive oil business until 2005 when necessity became the mother of invention.

Along Russell Boulevard, some of those old trees had become a problem: Olives fell on the Russell bike path, which became an oily, dangerous mess. Bicycle riders could slip, and the riders could go flying.