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Severe freezes have brought Texas's once-booming olive oil industry to its knees. But passionate farmers keep hope alive for solutions.

Skip to main content Currently Reading Texas olive trees hammered by February freeze. State's olive industry won't have another big harvest for 3-5 years FacebookTwitterEmail 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 di...