Pacific Sun Olive Oil is a product of Tehama County, an agriculturally rich and diverse region of Northern California. Tehama County sits at the head of California's Central Valley and is traversed by the Sacramento River. This provides it with both high quality soils majestic valley and mountain views. Predominant among Tehama County's agricultural products are walnuts, beef, dried plums, timber, dairy products, almonds, and olives.

Because of its Mediterranean climate, Tehama County is ideally suited for growing olives. Summer temperatures usually exceed 100º Fahrenheit while winter temperatures hover around 40-50º. Although uncommon, snow has been known to fall in Tehama County and snow-covered olive trees, like the one pictured here are a beautiful sight.

Olive trees were introduced to Tehama County in the late 1800's and early 1900's. There were over 5500 productive acres of olives in Tehama County in 2001. A large majority of this acreage was harvested for the olive canning industry. The remainder of this acreage was harvested for olive oil production and sold to producers throughout the state, including many in prestigious Napa and Sonoma Counties.

The snow-covered tree pictured above is over seventy years old and is of the Mission variety.