The Olive Tree

This is the second book on a series about olives, the tree and its products. As you read you will be taken on a wonderful journey of the Western Mediterranean. To many places off the beaten path where you will feel in your mind the experiences of the author. Highly recommended!

Loved this book, have shared it with friends, then ordered her other books also.Shopping used, older books is so easy at Amazon!

I bought the entire series. Very enjoyable and well-written. These books in the Olive Farm series tell of the story of Carol's trials and tribulations of purchasing a property in Southern France and the subsequent development of the property as an olive farm. Take-away: never buy property in France! You'll lose you money and your mind! These books are great reading when you want to live vicariously thought someone else's home nightmares. Truly enjoyable.

The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France You have to start with the first book, The Olive Farm, to get the most out of this account of Carol and Michel's journey to becoming olive farmers. I found Ms. Drinkwater's account of how she and her newly found love, Michel, bought a piece of property that turned them into olive farmer's. It is a love story about people, a place, and a way of life. Very charming and more intoxicating even than Under the Tuscan Sun. I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoyed the Tuscan books and anyone who appreciates good, solid writing.

Ms. Drinkwater is an excellent author with a warm and inviting writing style. I have her full collection of book about her and her partner's olive groves and I've greatly enjoyed each one. Each book gives both an intimate look into her life and is also very informative regarding the history and business of olive growing and olive oil production.

A very good read. I've always taken olives for granted, but it turns out there is a great deal to farming them. As an aside, Dr. Fuhrman in his EAT TO LIVE and SUPER IMMUNITY books speaks very highly of the nutrient value of olives. As a result of reading both, I've been eating a good amount of olives.

I am quite hooked on Carol Drinkwater's writing. The prose, the descriptions, the references to history, ancient and modern and, of course her outlook on life. All very engaging and just a rewarding read.

As well as the above the book is a philosophical and poetic description of the countries and people encountered in her travels. At times the poetry of her writing is breathtaking. I loved this book and her writing.

Having devoured the initial trilogy of Olive Farm books I have loved every minute of travelling with Carol through Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Sicily and mainland Italy. I am fascinated by the historical and political issues that she gently exposes to us to on the journey. I am in awe of the way she travels at 'ground level' staying in basic local accommodation, introducing us to scenes and experiences that would certainly be beyond my sphere of travel. I just can't bear to finish this book though! ........Well not until I have first stashed away my next wonderful read from Carol!

Ms Drinkwater holds the reader spell-bound as she recounts one half of her awesome quest to discover the origins of the not-so-humble Olive tree! Carol writes with much passion, compassion & enormous skill! She is also now a friend via social networking & I am so lucky to be able to follow more of her amazing life through this avenue.I discovered her Olive series at around the same time as I discovered & also fell in love with Provence in Southern France. Sadly, holidays are once a year, but with Carol's Olive series, I can pick up one of her books & be back 'home', even on a windy, cold, wet afternoon in UK....The Olive Tree was equally as evocative as all the others! Thank you Carol!

Having read all of the books in this series i found that this book was somewhat repetitive and not so absorbing as the rest of the series ( sorry Carol Drinkwater) which are so well reading

A journey round the western Mediterranean, beautifully written and very evocative.

I am enjoying your Olive tree books very much. I am learning so much, not only about Olives but the History of the Countries visited. Carol, you are amazing. To travel to these Coutries on your own is quite remarkable and I for one think you very brave. I wish you every success on your lovely Farm and hope you do not have too many more setbacks with the Bees and Olive Trees.