The 2020 summer growing season for the olive trees has been at the mercy of the extreme heat along with hot “Santa Ana” winds. These are the same conditions which sparked all the wildfires along the west coast this summer. The olive trees themselves are very resilient and can withstand almost any radical change…
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Seagate Olive Leaf Extract – comparing apples to oranges
Customers are always asking us to compare Seagate’s Olive Leaf Extract with other brands. They specifically want to know the levels of oleuropein, a phytonutrient found in the olive tree, its leaves and even in its oil. Unfortunately the U.S. health food industry is composed primarily of companies that are just labels who source…
New Crop of Seagate Olives growing, June 2016
It appears that we are finally going to recover from our drought. The 2016 Olive season appears ready to be a good one for the production of oil. Temperatures in the Guadalupe River Valley, where our olive trees grow in Baja California, have been mild. We have had sufficient rainfall to allow the trees to…
Oleuropein and Olive Leaf Extract
There are over 100 different brands of Olive Leaf Extract sold in the U.S. — in health food stores, drug stores, the internet and the large chains. However there only a couple of companies that process their own extract and only one (Seagate) that also grows its own olive trees. Yet, almost all of those…
Fish Fertilizer vs. chemical fertilizers in Stimulating Olive tree growth and production
We have been in a constant battle to defeat the efforts of several chemical companies who have been sending out their sales reps disguised as agricultural engineers to neighboring farms in northern Baja California and are giving out “recommended formulation” worksheets listing their pesticides and chemical fertilizers to the unsuspecting farmers. Sometimes the best strategy…