Fresh Raw Manzanillo Olives, 10 lb Box

Fresh, uncured Manzanillo olives grown in Northern California for home curing. Manzanillo becomes progressively more tender as the fruit matures, and the 2026 harvest has now advanced beyond the stage at which we can reliably offer 100% green fruit.

2026 Manzanillo Harvest Update, September 9

Manzanillo is ripening quickly now, and we can no longer reliably harvest and deliver fruit at the 100% Green—Firmest stage. That maturity is closed for the 2026 harvest and will return with the 2027 crop.

We are currently accepting orders for Green-Yellow—slightly more tender and Green with Magenta Blush—most tender. We continue to sort carefully for clean, sound fruit with good size and curing quality.

Manzanillo continues to mature after picking, including while in transit. Fruit packed at the Green-Yellow stage may therefore arrive with somewhat more yellow or blush than it had when it left Corning. Fruit packed with magenta blush may deepen somewhat in color on its way to you.

We are also working through an existing harvest queue. New orders should allow approximately 10 to 14 days before shipment. This is order-processing lead time, not time that harvested olives are held.

We harvest fruit as we work through the queue so that olives can be sized, graded, packed, and handed to UPS while fresh. Exact timing and maturity at delivery will reflect the living nature of the crop, but we will continue to select and pack each order as closely as possible to the maturity chosen.

100% Green—Firmest Manzanillo is no longer available for the 2026 harvest. Please do not preorder this maturity. It will return in 2027.

Back-in-stock notifications are alerts only; they do not reserve fruit or a place in the harvest queue. An order must be placed to enter the queue.

Fresh Raw Olives for Home Curing

These freshly harvested Manzanillo olives are sold raw, uncured, and untreated. They must be cured before eating.

Whether you are continuing a family tradition or preparing olives for the first time, Manzanillo is a versatile table olive well suited to lye curing, brining, and other traditional home-curing methods.

The 10 lb box is a practical choice for a smaller household batch or for customers trying a curing method for the first time. We also offer a 20 lb box of Manzanillo olives, which provides our best standard price per pound.

Curing Guidance

For tested home-curing guidance, see our Reader’s Guide to UC ANR’s Olives: Safe Methods for Home Pickling .

Our Reader’s Guide helps you navigate the University of California’s peer-reviewed instructions for water curing, brining, dry-salt curing, lye curing, storage, and food-safety considerations.

Manzanillo Size and Yield

Manzanillo is naturally smaller than Sevillano, and each box contains a natural assortment of sizes produced by the orchard and available at the selected stage of maturity. Exact proportions vary during the harvest.

In our packing test, approximately 19.3 ounces of fresh Manzanillo olives filled a one-quart wide-mouth canning jar. As a planning estimate, a 10 lb box should fill approximately 8 to 9 quart jars, depending on fruit size and how tightly each jar is packed.

About Manzanillo Olives

Manzanillo originated in Spain and is one of the varieties most closely associated with California table olives.

Manzanillo is a dual-purpose olive used both for table-olive curing and for olive oil. Compared with Sevillano, it has a smaller overall fruit size, a more favorable proportion of flesh to pit, and more oil in the flesh.

The fruit becomes increasingly tender as it matures, making maturity at harvest an important consideration when choosing Manzanillo for home curing.

Compare Fresh Olive Box Sizes and Prices

Prices vary according to maturity. Green-Yellow and Green with Magenta Blush are the Manzanillo maturities currently available from the 2026 harvest. Ripe olives are a separate seasonal offer selected for color and oil content.

The 20 lb box offers our best standard price per pound.

Prices shown are for the olives only. UPS Ground shipping is calculated separately at checkout.

How Fresh Olives Ship

During harvest, olives are picked from Corning orchards early each morning, then sized, graded, and hand-packed at our Fresh Olive Rally Point in Corning for our afternoon UPS pickup.

For current harvest orders, an order may wait approximately 10 to 14 days before its fruit is harvested. We do not harvest an order’s olives and then hold them for 10 to 14 days. The lead time reflects the orders ahead of yours; fruit is harvested as we are ready to process and ship it.

All fresh olives ship by UPS Ground. The exact charge is calculated at checkout using American Olive Farmer’s discounted UPS merchant rate and is passed through without markup. UPS may apply a remote- or extended-area surcharge based on the delivery address.

Each 10 lb box ships as a separate package with its own UPS label. Multiple-box orders are therefore charged per package. We have compared the alternatives carefully: several manageable cartons cost less to ship than one exceptionally heavy carton.

Each olive variety is packed separately. We cannot combine Manzanillo and Sevillano in one box because the varieties may be harvested, graded, and packed at different times.

• Net weight: 10 lb
• Carton dimensions: 16 × 9 × 5 inches
• Carrier service: UPS Ground
• Expedited shipping is not available