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"THE OLIVE REDISCOVERED"
Fallen Olives in Santa Barbara
Old Olive Tree
Few trees are as deeply rooted to human culture as the olive. Domesticated long before we'd learned to put words to paper, the olive holds tremendous symbolic power: for peace, strength, ressurection. But in California, producer Guy Hand found it can also symbolize something else: the distance we've put between ourselves and our agricultural past.