Andrea relishes in discovering a new place and especially finding the hidden places. She finds the local handy people for all kinds of...

Andreas loved farming from a young age. He used to sneak out of his parents home as a child to go and help the farmers with their land...

Ze Manuel owns and cares for the sheep that graze the land. He plants the grass for them to eat and also makes hay for the dry season so...

The ancestors of our land seem to have carefully selected the most appropriate varieties of olives for this land and climate. In doing...

Did you know that one olive tree produces four bottles of high quality olive oil? Yes, it doesn't seem like a lot

An olive harvest is one of the most fascinating experiences you can enjoy in Portugal. It is a wonderful way to learn a lot about the local

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Petro is an immigrant from Ukraine who arrived in Portugal 18 years ago. He lives in the neighbouring village. More recently he was...

A young man of 23 years, born and raised in a nearby village and the son of a forest and field construction worker. His sister didn't find..

Going beyond the traditional harvesting method to guarantee the best olive oil

When we came to care of this land it was quite wild. The beauty in that was that the diversity of plants, animals and insects was high...

You can think of the soil as the food for the plants that grow on it. In our case for our olive oil, the soil is the food for the olive...

It's easy to think that if you have land with crops or trees that bear fruit, it's a must to water this land. Especially in the Alentejo...

Petro junior is the son of Petro, who helps us on our farm. Coming from Ukraine, he works on a part time basis whenever we have high...