Custom Milling

In addition to milling our own olive fruit, we offer our Rapanelli mill and expert oil makers to other California growers. We can mill your olives with our stone wheels or with one of our two blade mills. Our commitment to making high quality oil continues in our custom milling program, giving our customers the best possible oil that can be made from their fruit.

Due to the size of our mill we have a 250 lb minimum for individual custom milling; those growers with fewer than 250 lbs of olives are invited to join one of our community mill days. We charge $450.00/ton for custom milling and our mill is open from late-October to mid-December. Reservations can be made with Shari DeJoseph (shari@mcevoyranch.com or 707-769-4100).

Community Mill Days

Sunday, November 15 and Sunday, December 6

For customers with small quantities of fruit who want to pool together with other growers, we will mill Tuscan olive varieties and all other varieties in two separate batches. Please arrive between 9 and 12 p.m. It is preferable to pick your fruit the day before milling, keeping it dry and cool. Fruit of Community Mill Day customers who choose to have their fruit milled separately (250 lb minimum) will be processed after all other Community fruit and will be charged at the one ton rate ($450.00/ton).

Price per lb of fruit: $1.00

Please bring your own oil containers (well-marked with your name) unless you would like to purchase them from McEvoy Ranch. Plan on 1 gallon from approximately 60 to 80 lbs of fruit depending on the overall ripeness. Due to the amount of time to calculate and divide up everybody’s share of the oil, please return the following Tuesday to pick up your oil.

If the weather is looking wet, be sure to check with Samantha Dorsey at 707-769-4123 or samantha@mcevoyranch.com.

Fruit which is very badly damaged by olive fly will not be included in the milling.

Please fill in the registration form below. We will weigh your fruit on our certfied scale when you arrive on the day of milling.

NOTICE:

There are new restrictions on transporting crops this season due to the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM). To help prevent the spread of this pernicious pest we have consented to an official compliance agreement with the County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office, the USDA and CDFA. Two aspects of this compliance agreement relate to our community mill day.

1. All fruit that arrives for our Community Mill Days must be 100% free of leaves. Fruit with intermixed leaf material will be charged a higher rate to compensate for special green waste disposal.

2. The CDFA has requested the names and addresses of all our community mill day customers. While not needed this year, they may in the future reference this list to ensure that all growers (no matter how small) are making an effort to prevent the spread of this pest. When you register to mill with us, we are obligated to hand over your name and address.

The restrictions and policies regarding the movement of crops within the Light Brown Apple Moth zones seem to be changing on a frequent basis. Please check back with our website before the mill date to ensure that you are aware of the most recent developments.

Please call your county’s agricultural commissioner’s office to see if your property falls within the LBAM quarantine zone; you may also look up the information online.

Marin County: Phone: (415) 499-6700 (contact: Susan Ventura)

Sonoma County: Phone: (707) 565-2371

Napa County: Phone: (707) 253-4357

Unlike many other olive oils, McEvoy Ranch oil is not “cold-pressed,” a now somewhat outdated term referring to a time when olives were crushed by stone wheels and the paste spread onto woven straw mats which were then stacked, one upon the other, creating pressure via a screw press to squeeze out the oil.

Today, most olive oil producers will actually opt for higher tech, more hygienic techniques for extraction far removed — and improved — from the days of cold-pressing, though the term is often still used in the marketplace. “Cold-process” is a more accurate description of McEvoy Ranch’s olive oil production style.