Upcoming events:
Refresh Your Olive Oil Tasting Skills
February 14, 2020, 830am-1pm, at the Santa Rosa Junior College Shone Farm. Tickets and more information here: https://tinyurl.com/OliveOilRefresh
On-Farm Consulting
Crops: Olives, Hops, Cider apples, berries, vegetables
Land feasability evaluation
Fertilizing, nutrient management, organic and conventional
Irrigation, salt management
Insect pests, organic and conventional
Plant Diseases, organic and conventional
Orchard Management: pruning, tree spacing, cover crop management, alternate bearing
Olive Oil Processing
In the Mill
Olive oil mill design
Processing techniques: fruit handling, transport, washing, cooling
Crushing, paste fineness
Malaxation, timing and temperature
Decanter
Vertical centrifuge
Storage and filtering
Olive Oil Sensory Evaluation
At the Table
Sensory short course presentation
Oil evaluation, oil blending
Competition judging