(Editor’s Note: Methods for water-cured and dry salt cured olives follows this article.) CHICO — Don Landis is the Johnny Appleseed-type folk hero of home-cured olives in Northern California. A jar of ...

Brining and salt-curing are processes more commonly associated with olives that have continental flavors. As far as the standard, from-the-can, stick-it-on-your-fingers black olive goes, that's a ...

The olive harvest begins late September and finishes as late as early March. Green olives are picked from late September to about the end of November. Blond olives are collected between October and ...