Tasting History – Olives
Friday November 10, 2023, 9-11am &
Saturday November 11, 2023, 9-11am
In the “Placita” outside Mission Garden’s kitchen
FREE and open to the public, for all ages. All monetary gifts are appreciated. Your gifts help the garden grow.
Mission Garden grows hundreds of traditional local crops. Tasting History is a new opportunity to learn about their origins, how they became part of our local agricultural and culinary traditions, how to grow them at home, and more. Docents will demonstrate and share tastings, written materials and recipes.
In November we feature olives from our Mission Garden trees. We will talk about where olives came from, how they came to Tucson, and how olive trees grow. Our experts will demonstrate a couple methods of curing olives, one using salt brine and one using lye. There will be olive samples to taste that grew in Mission Garden!
Please reach out to Kendall Kroesen, Mission Garden Outreach Coordinator at kendall@missiongarden.org for additional information.
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Want to learn more about the Olives at Mission Garden?
PDFs: Timothy Rockey shared the following resources:
“Olives are just cool” - Intro
“How To Olive” - Presentation notes
Olives: Safe Methods for Home Pickling - University of California
Video: In this short video, Dena Cowan talks all about pruning techniques for the olive trees at the Garden.