This is what a heatwave does to your lush long grass in an olive grove seeded with herbs and flowers. The grass is bleached yellow, the flowers burned and shriveled in the heat. But no matter how hard it is to work in these conditions, it’s the circle of life, and the olive trees love it.

We’ve had a few heavy storms, so the earth is hydrated. The regenerative gardens have sailed through their difficult period and are blessing us with their first summer vegetables, and we picked all the cornflower and camomile we needed and wanted at the farm for our hydrolite tests. All good!