Ripening: olives show their true colours
We are sometimes asked whether we grow green or black olives, as if the colours represented two different varieties rather the maturity of the fruit: every olive will turn from […]
Tag Archives: Olives
Back in the grove: time for the olive harvest
After a long hot summer (and an equally long and inexcusable break from blogging) when there was little to do in the grove other than watch the olives grow, it’s […]
Olive farming in summer: the waiting game
Summer is a quiet period for olive farmers, particularly the organic sort. The trees have been pruned and the grass mown, the fruit has set, so since we are not […]
Curing Olives: Drying (the lazy way)
Due to bureaucratic delays, we started harvesting our olives very late last year and were unable to complete the harvest before the oil presses closed in January. So in contrast […]
Pruning the olive trees – before and after
Buds are just starting to appear on some of our olive trees, meaning it’s time to wrap up the pruning. After 5 years of neglect the trees are very overgrown, […]
Notes from a Tuscan Olive Grove 