With Christmas just weeks away, and no doubt the children are already planning their gifts…. Olive Tree Farm decided to do something different! We have a wonderful selection of animals here, goats, pigs, a sheep, and a variety of birds, all of which are keepers, and all of which give huge enjoyment to the people that…
Author: rosemarywallsworth
A wife, a mum, a nanna and a passionate cook and photographer, especially cooking and wildlife!
Brinsea Products
We have successfully hatched and reared around 100 chickens using Brinsea products over the past year. Take a look at their range of incubators and brooders by clicking the link below the photo ….. https://www.omlet.co.uk/banner/display?cid=10&type=6&baid=OLIVETRE
Farm to Table
Our latest food experience here at Olive Tree Farm, proved to be quite a challenge. We have already learned how to prepare our own chickens, ducks and rabbits for the table, but this time, the challenge was quite a lot bigger. We have three female adult mini pigs and one cross wild boar. After having our…
Geese and Ducks….
Every week at Olive Tree Farm has it’s ups and downs…. and this week was no exception. The weather here has been shocking for the past couple of weeks. We have had hurricane force 1 winds which damaged an awful lot and we are still repairing and suffering as a result. 3 of the animal…
Our Tale of “3 Little Pigs”
We have just updated our Piggy page……take a look and let us know what you think……here is the link! https://olivetreefarm.es/our-animals/pigs/
New goat page…..
We have just added the story of how we came to have goats onto the site…..here is the link: https://olivetreefarm.es/our-animals/goats/ We are struggling a bit with the layout, and some of the pictures will not align to the left which is where we wanted them, so if anyone has got any tips on how to…
What a week!
It has been a very busy week here at Olive Tree Farm, and there have quite a few ups and downs….. Having animals is hard work. Making sure they are safely housed, fed a good diet, exercised, put to bed in the evening and let out early hours, takes a lot of time. We prepare…
Our First Olive Harvest…..
After a few days of constant Olive picking, we finally had enough to go to the press and get our own oil back. To enable us to do this, we had to have a minimum of 500kg of fruit, and according to a rough calculation we had around 700kg…… We went to the press in…
Christmas Craft Fairs with Olive Tree Farm
It has been a busy few weeks here at Olive Tree Farm…… as well as baking seasonal cakes and making Chutney from as many of our home grown vegetables as possible, we have also developed our own Olive Wood Candle holders and hand painted signs. Using reclaimed wood for the signs, they are…
Organic Christmas Hampers
We are now taking orders for our Olive Tree Farm, Organic Christmas Hampers…… They consist of 1 jar Organic Green Tomato Chutney, 1 bag of Organic Dog Treat…s, 1 Olive Wood T-Light Holder, 6 Olive Leaf T-Bags, 1 pack Purslane Herb Seeds, a 500g decorated Luxury Fruit Cake with marzipan and icing, 1 small bag…
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