People can actually go here and stay on Kate's farm and learn things from photography to art to olive and raspberry harvesting! Here is a link to her blog:
www.oliveoilandraspberries.it
Don't worry - my hands have not turned yellow! This is the olive rake!
What a wonderful opportunity to help Kate Middleton at her gorgeous farm with her olive picking and be able to see it all the way through, from picking, to processing, to tasting and having my own bottle! It was the perfect, sunny day for the harvest and we were well rewarded with a feast along with the olive pickers from Kosovo, who were very kind and made a huge effort to communicate. It was fun to climb the trees, use the small plastic rake (similar to kids' sand toys), and "brutally" rake the olives off the branches. It was a little early for the harvest, but Kate was hopeful that it would produce peppery and delicious extra virgin olive oil, and she was right! It is truly delicious.
Her agri-tourism (spelling?) farm is picture postcard beautiful, with a pool overlooking the hills, rosemary-lined walks, fig trees, a real boar's head mounted in the shed, dogs and a cat, and of course olive trees and raspberry bushes. I will vouch for both the place and the people - first rate!
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