Our gorgeous ladies are Italian (duh). Frantoio, Carotina, Pecolina, Leccino and more. We planted 220 5 year old trees 9 years ago. Some thrived, some died. Gophers chew on the roots. The ground squirrels love rubber and mess with our irrigation. The deer commute through our orchard to the vineyard next door and rub on the trees and snap branches. The bunnies dig little burrows near the trunks. Thank goodness the birds don’t dig olives (yet) so even though they poke a couple each year, they prefer grapes. We LOVE the owls and raptors that eat thousands of varmints a year. Olive trees grow year round so if you get a warm spell before a freeze… you lose your crop. Or if you have an early freeze before you’re ready to harvest… you lose your crop. And it goes on and on. Farming is not for the faint of heart.