Olives--the next oil boom?

[TexasTowelie]

What’s next for oil boom towns gone bust? UT Austin has some advice

South Texas boom towns are hoping to avoid becoming ghost towns now that oil prices have crashed.

Thomas Tunstall, a research director at the University of Texas at Austin, has some ideas for how they can avoid that fate.

For starters, think beyond oil. Way beyond oil — to things such as olives, tourism tied to the Texas Revolution, recreation on lakes and river, foreign trade, ecotourism and even spinach, a historic crop in the “Winter Garden” counties, long known for year-round farming.

“They should be thinking about diversification,” Tunstall said.

Read more: http://www.mrt.com/business/oil/top_stories/article_24084216-9adb-11e5-ae91-dfd1b0fb5ede.html

[rurallib]

1. Texas revolution? the one with the Alamo or the one coming up?

[Enthusiast]

2. I look forward to Texas olive oil.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Hey, we have the spinach too!

Popeye will be thrilled, I tell ya.

[7wo7rees]

7. Texas olive oil has been available for several years.

It is very good!
www.texasoliveranch.com

[Enthusiast]

8. Thanks!

[7wo7rees]

9. You are most welcome and hope you enjoy! n/t

[TNNurse]

4. I think the GA olive grower

is doing very well....and the oil is great it. I do not mind spending a little extra to support agriculture in my home state. I am pretty sure there are native Texans who would do the same.

[Major Nikon]

5. Texas wine and spirit production is booming

For anyone who visits the Texas hill country, I highly recommend touring one or more of the wineries or distilleries.

[fasttense]

6. Why do we allow capitalism to destroy our towns like this?

Detroit and other communities devastated because we allow rich people who own corporations to move and uproot whenever they want. Without the labor, education, roads, communication and electrical grids that we built the corporation would NOT and could NOT make any money.

They burden our communities, take what they want then move out leaving devastation and their waste behind. It should NOT be allowed.

Who made an industry, a commodity or a corporation our masters? We should be telling them what to do Not the other way around.

[ashling]

10. We need to get us some Syrian refugees