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Texas olive trees hammered by February freeze. State s olive industry won t have another big harvest for 3-5 years
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The 50 acres of olive trees on Dunham Jewett’s farm in
Moulton, about 100 miles east of San Antonio, look like a war zone. What had been 10- to 12-foot-high trees with wide canopies are now nothing more than 2- to 3-foot high stumps, cut down following February’s devastating winter storms.
When temperatures dropped to 10 degrees and stayed below freezing for about 100 hours, Jewett said that every one of his trees died from the ground up. His only option: cut them down, burn the wood in huge pyres and hope for the best.
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Posted By Nina Rangel on Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 1:32 PM click image YouTube Screenshot / Texas Farm Bureau San Antonio native Saundra Winokur, a pioneer of Texas olive industry, and has died. Saundra Winokur, an acclaimed pioneer of Texas olive cultivation, died last week after a years-long battle with cancer. Winokur, who owned and operated Sandy Oaks Olive Orchard in Elmendorf, just south of San Antonio, has been known as a trailblazer in the Texas olive industry since her orchard’s 1998 inception. One of the state s first organic commercial olive growing operations, Sandy Oaks tended its trees with sustainability in mind, using only natural fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.
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