ISSUE 14, OILS, Part 5: Olive

The Troubled Quest to Grow Olives in the South

Olive Groves on Cumberland Island

The Troubled Quest to Grow Olives in the South

Of all the quests that early American farmers and horticulturists pursued, none was more enduring and consequential than that for culinary oils or fats less expensive and more suitable for salad dressing than melted lard. From Thomas Jefferson’s failed attempts to grow olive …