Campus olive trees unite CalTech students

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Nov 5th 2007 @ 1:11PM

Last Friday, students at CalTech put away their high tech pursuits and joined forces to harvest all the olives that grow on the school's 130 olive trees. This is the second year they've been picking the olives and the first year that they school went all out to throw a campus-wide harvest festival, complete with three-course family style Italian meal.

It got started last year when the university president spotted two students picking some of the olives. He promised them a home cooked meal if they could devise a way of making oil from the olives. They came up with a mechanism and the campus interest grew. The rest, as they say, is history. For those of you live in the area and want to try out some of the CalTech olive oil, it will be available in their bookstore in about three weeks.

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11-06-2007 @2:30AM Hilary said... I picked the mulberries growing on FSU campus and made a pie. I wish I took advantage of the pecan trees growing around there, too. It apparently used to be a pecan farm. I love it when people get back to the native plants in their area for food.
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11-06-2007 @10:09AM kevjohn said... I was just about to comment that I didn't think you could get the local students here in Tallahassee to do something like this unless you threw in tickets to an FSU football game, but then I read what Hilary wrote. heh
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