You can plant an olive pit and grow an olive tree either indoors or outside. Use an olive pit from an organic tree, rather than from a jar of olives you got at the store. Be patient! It can take years ...

"Olives form clusters on branches and slowly mature and ripen," says Olivia Roszkowski. The ripening process takes between 6 and 8 months, with the olives gaining more oil content over time (though ...