By Oregon Family Farm Association,
Olive growers in Oregon are celebrating their first harvests throughout the Olio Nuovo Festival. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, people in the 1960s considered Oregon’s climate too cold for growing wine grapes, but since then, the state’s wine industry has flourished. And today, vintners and other Willamette Valley farmers are planting hardy olives in a climate once considered too cold for the crop. Paul Durant, a vintner in Dundee, planted olives on his 15-acre farm and purchased a press from Italy, where the company sent a representative to show them how to process the olives and noted the annual Olio Nuovo celebration in Italy marks the first harvests and pressing of olive oil.
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