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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.
This piece aired on Living On Earth and KBCX radio in central California.
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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. This piece aired on Living On Earth and KBCX radio in central California.
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???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.
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??That's the sound of olives falling. The days are short, the air crisp, and olives clustered in olive trees all over California are turning deep black, dead ripe. Some will be picked and pressed into olive oil or cured for eating. But many will be ignored. They'll fall like black hailstones. They'll bounce off cars and peoples' heads. They'll slicken sidewalks, clog gutters. They'll leave chunks of wintertime Califor...
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Laura Herberg
Posted on December 02, 2008 at 09:09 PM | Permalink
Olive'd It!
There's something about the sociology of a food product that I can't get enough of. I also loved how this piece is so timely, in tapping into the ever evolving return to sustainable living/DIY culture--harvesting your own food, and making a product yourself--but now, even in urban environments! A well-rounded piece, I do recommend it. Great to listen to while cooking!!