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After a claim, we confirm by emailEverything here comes from public sources — award lists, certification registers, the territory inventories. The rest of the story — the family, the grove, the real age of the trees, this year's lab sheet — only the mill can tell, and it is the part buyers bid on.
McEvoy Ranch occupies 550 acres of former dairy land in Petaluma, California, bought by Nan Tucker McEvoy in 1990. She imported 1,000 olive seedlings from Italy and set out to make in northern California the kind of Tuscan oil she had grown fond of. Only about a tenth of the ranch is planted, a limit the family describes as deliberate.
Seven Italian varieties go into the estate extra virgin: Frantoio, Leccino, Pendolino, Moraiolo, Maurino, Coratina and Leccio del Corno. The fruit is milled on the ranch on a Rapanelli blade mill that is itself certified organic, and the mill takes in fruit from outside growers with half a ton or more, handling non-organic lots only after a washdown. By-products of pressing are composted on site into CCOF-certified organic compost that goes back onto the orchards.
Nion McEvoy became owner and chief executive in 2014, and three of his adult children now work in the business. Two recent results sit on the public record: a Gold for the certified organic extra virgin at the California State Fair's 2026 olive oil competition, and a 2026 Good Food Award from the Good Food Foundation for the organic chili lime olive oil made from the 2025 harvest.
From the public record: mcevoyranch.com · goodfoodfdn.org
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