Demand for Seagate Extra Virgin Olive Oil has been exceeding our production capacity after our first two full seasons. We can attribute this to the high quality of the product and to the fact that this is 100% pure olive oil, without being cut with vegetable oil fillers and processed with great care. Not a…
Category: Processing
Seagate installs Biological Filter in the Ensenada Factory
Thirty years ago, Seagate’s factory in Ensenada, Baja California was in an isolated location. However, local population growth has led to the spread of a surrounding neighborhood filling up with houses, apartments, and shops right up to the walls of the factory. During the last 5 years, for the first time we have neighbors ……
Inside the Olive Oil Purity Scandal
Olive oil has gotten a nasty reputation lately, and rightfully so. It has been touted as a staple of healthy Mediterranean diets, beauty products, and even religious rituals. But as olive oil has grown in popularity and mass production has taken over, olive oil has become less pure, thereby losing its virginity. After a 2010…
Olive Oil Production – Season #2 begins
The olives in the photo above have just been transferred by plastic tote boxes from our farm to our factory in Ensenada. At this point, they will be visually inspected, selected, separated and washed prior to loading into the vacuum tank shown below. Although we call this season #2 for Seagate’s olive oil production, this…
Seagate Seaweed and Radiation Testing update
Since the 2011 Japan Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster, Seagate has been carefully monitoring the production of Seaweed Powder for any levels of radiation. Of primary concern is the possible presence of radioactive isotope Iodine-131. Federal FDA standards for food products allows a max level of 170 Bq/kg. Seagate harvests their seaweed along the Pacific…
Settle Into An All-Natural Routine with Seagate Auto Shipments
So you’ve decided to take an all-natural approach to staying healthy…congratulations! Perhaps you’ve started taking natural supplements, like our grape seed extract and carrot powder, or started relieving minor illnesses with natural remedies like olive leaf nasal and throat spray. As with many parts of life, staying healthy is all about routine and consistency. Adjusting…
Olive Oil Production Begins
After comparing the quality to the best olive oils imported from Italy we decided to make the statement that appears on our caps that this is ‘The Best You Ever Had”. This is probably the only facility in the world using vacuum technology to extract olive oil. It took 3 years to perfect. It is…
Grapes
The coastal range of northwestern Baja California has a year-round Mediterranean climate, with plenty of sunshine and warm dry summers. The Guadalupe River Valley near Seagate’s factory in Ensenada has become a small but growing center of grape-growing and wine production. Seagate has been processing Grape Seed Extract since 1996, receiving grapes from select nearby…
Seaweed Part II – Grover’s Skin Rash By Richard Lentz
Today’s blog entry is a little different from the usual theme of showing photos of Seagate’s farm and factory, in to bring you Grover’s “Disease” or “Rash”, or whatever it is?? The word disease is in parenthesis because dermatologists have no idea what it is, what causes it, how to treat it or if it…
Lemons
The decision to develop a new product at Seagate is based upon 3 key factors: 1) whether the company can produce the raw material themselves, either from their farming or fishing operations; 2) whether the product is different or unique from products already available in the health food industry; and 3) whether the new product…