Orchard uses regenerative methods to grow olives with little water

For Bogdan “Beau” Caceu, regenerative agriculture is all about choices.

Caceu grows olives at La Creole Orchards , a 45-acre property outside Dallas, in Polk County, that’s completely off-grid, with no public water or electricity.

Caceu chose olives, he said, because he believes they are the most sustainable crop that can be grown for profit.

“They don’t go dormant. They breathe carbon dioxide in 365 days a year,” he said. “They are a tree that does not have pests or any problems, that does not require anything other than a little bit of nitrogen and, when young, a little cleaning around the immediate vicinity of the tree.”

“I can farm the trees, harvest, have the fruit crushed, make the extra virgin olive oil and stay with it all the way to the consumer,” he said. “Very few crops, e