Our Olive farm is located  in  Georgia's Magnolia Midlands zone  along the scenic and historic Woodpecker Trail  route  state Route 121,  which runs through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.   Tracy (6 Gen) & Curtis Poling are the proprietaries With 300 acres our farm has 6 generations of family heritage in Long Leaf Pine forestation.  In 2015 we installed Our 6,000 olive tree orchard and currently has grown to over 9000.  Woodpecker Trail Olive Farm won a Silver Award at the 2020 NYIOOC World Olive Oil Competition, the world’s most prestigious olive oil quality contest. 

The olive tree – Symbol of Immortality 

 It was Athens, goddess of wisdom, the wisest of Zeus’s daughters, that had stuck a spear into the ground at the break of civilization, and the spear had turned into an olive tree ...

The importance of olive oil to the people of the world is reflected in past writings and even laws. The Greek poet Homer called it “liquid gold.” The Greek philosopher Democritus believed a diet of honey and olive oil could allow a man to live to be a hundred, an extremely old age in a time where life expectancy hovered around forty years. In the sixth century B.C. the Athenian legislator Solon introduced laws protecting olive trees. In a grove only two trees could be removed each year. Breaking this law incurred severe penalties, including execution. There are more than a hundred references in the Bible to olives and olive oil.