Turning a mess into olive oil success

Around this very day 10 years ago, in a conference room in the grounds division office, Dan Flynn and a handful of others turned out the first run of UC Davis olive oil — pressed from olives off campus trees. The crew filled bottles by hand, plugged in the corks and stuck on labels. The fruit of this labor went on sale a few days later, at Picnic Day 2005.

This is a great story of the people behind the invaluable organisation that is the UC Davis Olive Center. It’s also pretty representative of the passion and inspiration of the people in the olive oil industry, no matter where in the world they grow and produce.