Complex sentence: Farm owner Andrew Butt has been recognized as the first person to plant olive trees in the region; he planted his first olive tree in 2001 at his farm on Pender Island, using Frantoio and Leccino cultivars that he obtained from California.
Split into simpler sentences: Farm owner Andrew Butt has been recognized as the first person to plant olive trees in the region, at his farm on Pender Island. Butt planted his first olive tree in 2001, using Frantoio and Leccino cultivars that he obtained from California.