Texas truly has a bit of Provence… and Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Greece… Those are the varieties of olives that do well on the gentle hills of the Sandy Oaks Olive Orchard twenty minutes south of San Antonio in Elmendorf. Sandy, the mastermind of all things olive, took us on a tour from one shady spot to another. She learned to propagate from cuttings while in Egypt, and has clearly studied olive production all across the Mediterranean. The orchard recycles the water that comes out of the olive press and uses it to water the young trees in the nursery. They also feed the pumice– what is left of the fruit and pits after the oil and water are pressed out of the olives– to…