We had some evil weather much like the UK over the last weekend and the start of the week. Storm Filomena bless her. Not as destructive for us as Gloria was last year but, oh my goodness me it was cold. I ordered gloves it was that cold! Temperatures didn’t…
It’s been olive picking time.
I love this time of year. We usually get warm sunshine to work in and the atmosphere is amazing. We’ve always had great teams from across the world to help us gather the harvest, along with family and friends of course. This year has been strange though. Certainly there was less…
This seasons workers.
This year our trees gave us just under 2000 kg of olives. There has been so little rain here the “rendimiento”; that is the proportion of oil in litres to the quantity of olives in kg was very high. We have about 300 litres of extra virgin olive oil settling…
On the roof
We had a bit of work done on the roof and then put artificial grass down on top. Nice green grass and the original bright white walls around. Suddenly it all seemed a bit too .. well.. “white” . So I thought I’d add a bit of colour. I took…
Four legged visitors
Two weeks ago I found two puppies at the bottom of a dry waterfall. We rescued them and took them to ARCA in Tortosa along with a donation and lots of cuddles. Fortunately there was a “mercy mission” heading towards Holland with mostly puppies for re-homing and these two got…
List for the start of the Summer.
Those of you who know me , know that I teach English up the coast at L’Ametlla de Mar. Summer holidays in Spain start in June. Now in fact. So I am now free until September 28 I think…. I have written a list of the things I want to…
Yoga holiday anyone?
We are hosting a week long yoga holiday here at Manna House in October. Balanced Inside Retreat Saturday 1st- Saturday 8th October 201 Do you want time to recharge your batteries? To find down time, a time-out just for you? To look at yourself and see what is really important? Enjoy one week…
Bottled Summer
Five minutes of bottled sunshine for those who want to be reminded of what Summer looks like…
Working at Manna House
Restful, relaxing holidays at Manna House and Activity holidays Painting or Picking and Pressing olives are two ways you can get to spend time with us here on the farm, but we also take on helpers travelling all over the world. People come and stay here, working with us and for us…
It’s started..
The Almond blossom has started. Walking the dogs this morning there was the sweet Toblerone aroma that means Spring is headed our way. Some of our trees are thinking about it but as we walked this morning there were at least half a dozen close to the road in full…