The Ricchiuti family, long-time growers of olives, almonds and tree fruit, recently began pressing and bottling their own line of olive oil under the ENZO brand. They commissioned me to document this year’s crop—both the mechanical and hand harvests—and to follow the fruit from the trees to the bottle. The entire process takes place in the Central Valley.
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