If you never ordered from us yet, this is how it works: Menu goes up every monday at lunch time on our “les olives” Facebook and Instagram pages. we also have a mailing list and menu is sent via email, if you wish to be added to our list, send us a request on our…
One year ago …
Yes it is already one year since we started doing take away dishes to pre order, we have improve our offer a fair bit in the last 12 months too, adding a full range of frozen dishes, some fresh cake, sweet and savoury pastries, local artisans produce, chocolates and of course our very own garden…
today in the garden 23/6/20
With a scorcher spring, the garden has never been so full, the badly needed rain came but is also staying…still everything is pretty early, plump tomatoes expected, beans and peas already been picked, outside strawberries appearing on desserts and raspberries due shortly with black and white currants, new red currants only planted this year should…
Summer 2020
It is all go in the garden at present, we extended some of the growing area and are building a new enclosure and an area for permaculture, extended some of the water supply and relevelled one of the tunnel, yes it is all go, had a wonderful spring, nearly too hot reaching some days 50…
Covid period
We won’t be able to reopen to the public do to the small size of our premises, so take away meals will carry on, menu going up on facebook monday lunch time and last orders are taken by tuesday evening for collection friday between 12 and 3 PM. If you haven’t already ordered with us,…
summer 2019
We have a huge amount of fruits and vegetables growing now, following a late start in spring, the hot wearher helped catching up, for the first time we have loads of native and mining bees around and our local bumblebees are back in numbers. Ladybirds are keeping whitefly population down and red spider mites are…
Autumn 2018
It’s all about getting the ground ready for next spring! still a good bit of stuff growing in and out of the tunnels and some harvesting left to do, potatoes, parsnips, beetroot etc,,to be lifted, cabbage, salads and different leaves growing fine for pickings. Overwintering vegs like spring cabbages, broadbeans, peas, onions and garlic are…
It’s all about strawberries
White pineapple, Mara des bois, Delician, Elsanta, wild red and white, and guariguette, that’s lots of strawberries ! all with amazing different flavours.
Foie gras for Xmas
After last year huge success, we have again three types of cooked foie gras on offer for this xmas, make sure to put your order in early, they were all sold the week before xmas eve.
Autumn planting
It is time now to plant overwintering garlic, we had a really good crop of thermidrome and early purple wight last year, so this year we are trying something different, Marco and Cristo, planted yesterday under nettings as they are quite a lot of birds around still, add a good fertilizer before planting and water…