Cathy Bernell leads the team in product development and recipe formulation.  A few words from Cathy:

I’m not sure if this will serve as an introduction or the basic argument for medication.  I've been involved in the fabulous world of olives for a mere 13 years. I feel that I have used my very unusual way of thinking to the benefit of my businesses.  Despite holding a BBA in Finance/Real Estate from The University of Oklahoma (not exactly olive country), I was one of the founding partners in Lone Star Olive Ranch in 2008. We were one the first pioneering olive orchards in the undiscovered industry known as the Texas olive industry.  We went against all logic and “expert” advice and planted 14,000 olive trees in an 80 acre olive orchard in Madisonville, Texas. As we learned from our many failures and victories and became Texas olive producers, we encountered the next untraveled path in the Texas olive industry; harvesting and milling the olives into true 100% Texas Extra Virgin Olive Oil.  It was at this point that we built upon our olive foundation and created Texas Mobile Mill, a company started to provide a distinct advantage to Texas olive growers for producing exceptional extra virgin olive oil by bringing the world’s largest mobile olive mill and Texas’ only Master Miller to the olive groves instead of making the growers haul their olives in the Texas heat to a brick and mortar mill.  So now, Lone Star Olive Ranch and Texas Mobile Mill grow, harvest, mill and bottle 100% Texas extra virgin olive oil.

And along the way, I was elected to the Texas Association of Olive Board and selected to sit on the Texas Olive Oil Advisory Board. But, it was at this point that my love of olive oil and passion for cooking took control and prompted the apex company, Olive These Foods.  I feel that I have arrived at my destiny as a partner in Olive These Foods by being allowed to create innovative and exceptional foods using one of the world’s greatest ingredient, extra virgin olive oil.