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D’Oliva Olive Oil

PathLight Leadership

It’s hard to believe that this will be PathLight’s tenth year. It was 2006 when Mark and Adrienne Parcher partnered with D’Aun and me to begin this wonderful journey. Joined by my assistant, Anne Stoneberger, we started a nonprofit and got to work. We had no idea we were launching a ministry that could impact an entire nation!

It started with the humble desire to serve. We were not sure in what capacity to serve, but we clearly felt God’s calling on our hearts. In time we saw the opportunity to impact the education system in Belize through personalized programs …

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California Olive Oil Council

D’Aun and I had a fun weekend at the California Olive Oil Council annual meeting in Monterey. Sometimes our little D’Oliva Olive Oil felt overwhelmed by the huge operators, but everybody attending genuinely wanted to help each other create better California grown olive oil. Stories, ideas, and data flowed freely between “competitors.” It didn’t matter if you had 100 trees or 100,000 trees because all in the industry want to see great things happen with locally grown olive oil.

The panel discussions were led by a wide range of growers, marketing people, certified judges, retailers, technical experts, and trade association …

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Olive Harvest Diary

It was dark and quiet when I arrived at the Goble Ranch on Sunday morning. Not yet even a glimpse of the coming sunrise, only the owls in the eucalyptus grove calling “hoo hoo” as they wrapped up a night of hunting. It was eerie in some ways, beautiful in others.

I opened the D’Oliva shed doors, flipped on a few lights, and started setting up for the days olive harvest. Yellow lugs were placed at the end of each row, a cooler of drinks set out, the ATV gassed and ready. Soon the crew began arriving, a parade of …

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D’Oliva Online Store is Open!

It’s been quite the process, but the D’Oliva Olive Oil online store is finally open. People have been pestering me and D’Aun about this for at least a year now. We’re really happy with the look and functionality. Hopefully it makes shopping easier for everybody.

Visit the store here and see what you think. We welcome feedback and would love to hear from you.

Of course the award winning D’Oliva oil is for sale in the store. You can also find D’Oliva soap and gift cards, and be sure to check out the great new logo items!

There are two …

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D’Aun Interview

D’Aun was featured in a recent post about D’Oliva Olive Oil so I’m sharing the interview here. I’m definitely a lucky guy!

We sat down with D’Aun Goble, the founder of D’Oliva, to hear a bit more about the brains (and beauty!) behind this delicious olive oil.

What was your inspiration to start a boutique Olive Oil brand?

“I wanted to do a ‘reinvent’ once my kids were grown. We had the land available at our family ranch, and I love things that bring together hard work, friends, and good food. After several years of weekend study at the Mondavi …

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Olive Harvest

The D’Oliva Olive Oil harvest was this past weekend, so I’ve asked D’Aun to be my guest blogger:

Wow, what a harvest it was for D’Oliva Olive Oil! The trees were looking good all summer, and as young trees we expect a steep upward curve in production in these first few years. Roy and I estimated about 1000 pounds (compared to 280 last year) and we planned accordingly.

Gulp…we were a bit off! At the end of the day — and I mean literally the end of the day with the sun down and the temperature dropping — we …

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Olive Grove Tuesday

Jesus spent a lot of time in an olive orchard this week. What is often called “the Olivet Discourse” was probably a Tuesday evening discussion with His disciples, sitting together in the grove as they viewed the Temple and busy city of Jerusalem across the valley.

That particular olive grove has a spectacular setting and has one of the most photographed views in Israel. I was first there in 1975, staying in a hotel atop the Mount of Olives. A few years ago I returned again with my church. Though bustling with tourists and over developed to handle the crowds, …

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Christmas Letter

I was once known for my hilarious Christmas letters. Or at least I thought they were funny. But life got busy, not to mention less than rosy all the time, and hilarity sometimes turned into the mundane. It can be hard to muster the energy to put out a Christmas letter, much less one with humor.

This year, I stepped back from the brink of seriousness and added a few light touches of humor. Nothing that will cause a belly laugh … but certainly not as serious as in the recent past. I hope you enjoy it.
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Dear Friends …