REGGELLO, Italy -- The second-floor window of the restored farmhouse where Carolyn Adair is staying overlooks the Arno Valley, a verdant sea of curving slopes and jagged edges blanketed by olive ...

Italian farmers are facing ruin as a plague of “olive tree leprosy” devastates orchards across southern Europe. The Xylella bacteria has hit particularly hard in the country’s Puglia region along its ...

RACALE, Italy — Across the stony heel of Italy, a peninsula ringed by the blue-green waters of the Mediterranean, olive trees have existed for centuries, shaping the landscape and producing some of ...

Anyone who has ever visited Greece will likely know that there are olive trees literally everywhere, and I was lucky enough to have a gorgeous array of native Mediterranean trees growing right on the ...

SEGGIANO, Italy — On the steep hills of southern Tuscany, Romain Piro has spent the past two decades harvesting fruit from his silvery olive trees and turning it into olive oil. "One would be crazy ...

The remains of an olive tree near Trepuzzi burnt to the ground in one of numerous wild fires ravaging Salento. Arsonists are believed to be behind many of the fires striking Xylella-infected trees in ...

Harvesting olives to make olive oil is an ancient Italian ritual that's increasingly under threat. Now, some believe it might just be the next frontier of Italian tourism. Rubber boots squelching in ...

Siblings Marie-Charlotte Piro and Romain Piro stand among some of the olive trees they harvest in Tuscany, Italy, to create their olive oil. Their Olio Piro startup had been exporting all its olive ...