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Olive farming in summer: the waiting game

July 25, 2013by Tuscan olive grove girl 15 Comments

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 […]

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Mowing the olive grove

July 2, 2013by Tuscan olive grove girl 15 Comments

Although I loved the long-grassed meadow look that our olive grove sported in spring, there are solid reasons for mowing the grass which are impossible to argue with. The tall […]

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Olive Trees, The Olive Grove, The Olive Grove in Summer

Fifty shades of green: changing olive trees

May 28, 2013by Tuscan olive grove girl 22 Comments

One of the (many) reasons that I love olive trees is their evergreen nature. In winter, when the neighbouring grapevines are reduced to knobbly stumps, and the naked chestnut trees […]

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Olive Trees, The Olive Grove, The Olive Grove in Spring
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Natural fertilisers for the olive grove: crimson peas and black medic

May 18, 2013by Tuscan olive grove girl 14 Comments

I have always had a soft spot for the winged flowers of the legume family, so I was delighted to discover that the tiny specks of pink dotting the olive […]

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The Olive Grove, The Olive Grove in Spring
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Curing Olives: Drying (the lazy way)

May 13, 2013by Tuscan olive grove girl 12 Comments

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 […]

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Pruning the olive trees – before and after

May 6, 2013by Tuscan olive grove girl 4 Comments

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, […]

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The Olive Grove, The Olive Grove in Spring

Pruning our Tuscan olive trees

April 22, 2013by Tuscan olive grove girl 3 Comments

After a long, wet winter, springtime in Tuscany brings many delights – trellises draped in fragrant wisteria, crunchy broad beans eaten fresh from the pod, and the excitement of the […]

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The Olive Grove, The Olive Grove in Spring

Welcome to our Olive Grove

April 5, 2013by Tuscan olive grove girl 2 Comments

In September 2012 we left behind our old life in London to start a new life in Michele’s native Tuscany. We took over an abandoned hill-side olive grove in the […]

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