Record Olive Harvest
David & Karen Taylor · TasteContributor blog post by David Taylor:
After last years poor olive crop – this year was a record harvest!
175 Kilos
And as an added luxury and complete surprise whilst we were away on holiday our house and cat guardians picked all the olives and took them to the mill for us!
So were were very happy to …Continue reading here
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