PHX: Raw Olives

[StuCazzo]

Does anybody know where I might be able to find raw, unprocessed olives in the Phoenix area? I tried the Queen Creek olive mill, but they indicated that they use all of their olives. I would be willing to pick them myself.

[Alice Letseat]

You can also purchase them on occasion at Giado's World Foods, SE corner of Dobson/Guadalupe.

[hzp]

email me offlist.... i have an olive tree and do the same. the green are gone now, but i've got black.

[ejs1492]

email me off list also; i own a number of office buildings all over the valley and would gladly permit you to take olives from our trees.

[ziggylu]

Lots of older parks and neighborhoods have olive groves...we have trees in our neighborhood on the parkways for instance. I know at the olive mill they've said they have people who go out to the parks and other public trees and collect olives then bring them for pressing(need to have a certain weight).

When I lived in CA my mom would take us to a park not far from where we lived to harvest...then she'd cure herself.

I think it's too late to harvest olives however? (usually late summer and early fall?)