The olive harvest begins late September and finishes as late as early March. Green olives are picked from late September to about the end of November. Blond olives are collected between October and ...

Brining and salt-curing are processes more commonly associated with olives that have continental flavors. As far as the standard, from-the-can, stick-it-on-your-fingers black olive goes, that's a ...

A close-up of canned pitted black olives - The Image Party/Shutterstock These days, many Americans are first exposed to olives in canned form -- more specifically, those pitted black olives you might ...