Olives, technically classified as a fruit, is a powerful fruit. It would benefit most people to eat around 5-10 olives a day. A rich source of powerful stuff,antioxidants, minerals and vitamins and 80 percent of the calories in an olive come from healthy fats. They are a great way to prevent cancers in today’s toxic world, and Bonus! Eating olives improves the appearance of wrinkles by a whole twenty percent! When it comes to the history of olive groves in California, you need to know about Freda Ehmann, the human responsible for the perfect black rings we eat on our pizza today, the ‘Mother’ of the California ripe olive industry.

Season 3 features inspiring, gallant, even audacious stories of REAL 19th Century women from the Wild West. Stories that contain adult content, including violence which may be disturbing to some listeners, or secondhand listeners. So, discretion is advised. I am Andrea Anderson and this is Queens of the Mines, Season Three.

Our story takes place in California, where nowadays olive trees are abundant, but fun fact, olive trees are not native to California. It was at the San Diego Mission in 1769, where the first olive cuttings were planted in California. Many of the olive groves in California are up to 150 years old, but olive trees have an average lifespan of 300 to 600 years. Average, some can live as long as 2000 years. The oldest known cultivated olive trees in the world were grown before the written language was even invented.