“tree olive” is the name we have given to the naturally-cured raw olives we produce at our small Mediterranean farm.

Tree olives are nothing more than shriveled up raw olives.

Tree olives look similar to olives which fall to the ground and remain there. Fallen olives rot away naturally. If you catch them right these are perfectly edible too. Fallen olives are characterized by an earthy and moldy taste. They are typically very dry indeed, but they are perfectly edible. Fallen olives have never made me sick.

Tree Olives are cured through naturally occurring biological tanning events.

We set up the conditions by which that event can occur.

“tree olives” is the most appropriate term for unprocessed raw edible olives.

Johnny Fitzsimmons

14^th November 2014