The health and wellbeing of the grove and it’s trees depends on many factors guided by the values that are important to us. We keep our groves in long grass seeded with herbs and flowers, and use no pesticides or chemicals. The long grass and flowers are rich natrium, which keeps the earth healthy and the olive trees strong.

Management and maintenance also includes occassionally cutting the grass and pruning the trees, and redistributing the mulch to the earth and vegetable gardens on the property. That’s what we’re doing now, a solid two week’s work, pruning and then mulching the branches and twigs and their leaves in our little electric powered mulcher. He’s little and cute, but he does the job wonderfully!