{"id":55031,"date":"2025-08-11T12:29:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=55031"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:19:02","slug":"the-new-crescent-olives-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=55031","title":{"rendered":"The New Crescent: Olives (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Crescent series<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next in the series<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We talked a bit about olive trees in a previous blott: https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=25662<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For The New Crescent<\/strong>, the communities will decide how to use their irrigated crop land. But the economic realities of irrigating the soil with desalinated water will encourage the planting of high value crops or orchards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olives are one of those rare foods that straddle the line between snack, ingredient, and ancient cultural symbol. They\u2019re salty little time travelers\u2014domesticated at least 6,000\u20137,000 years ago in the Eastern Mediterranean, worshiped by the Greeks, fought over by empires, and now stuffed with pimentos, jalapenos, anchovies,… in your local grocery store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out these varieties (and there’s many more<\/em>) from The Olive Pit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Olive Pit<\/a> (Corning, Ca.) has a pretty cool web site that allows you to walk around the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For reference purposes, I have tried the following forms of olive stuffige:<\/p>\n\n\n\n