The Olive Tree

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.

The wealth of historical information in Carol's book is uniquely valuable as well as her interview research on sustainable methods of orchard agriculture. Her journal-style of sharing her experiences and responses to them was never over played (ie. very readable). I found the book a goldmine and fell in love with olive oil culture, especially the Berber people's sensibilities about adapting with love and family their foremost value.

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 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.

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!

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.

Loved the Olive Farm and expected more of the same. This book just didn't have it. Because I liked the Olive Farm so Think I will try another of her books.

I THINK THE WHOLE SERIES OF "THE OLIVE TREE "IS SO MUCH FUN TO READ AND BE SURE TO GET THE HARD BACK WITH ALL THE PHOTOS OF HER HOME AND ALL. YOU CAN FIND THEM ON AMAZON I HAVE ALL THEM ALL SURE LEARNED ALOT .

A well-written book giving a deep insight into Provençal daily life and customs. Be sure that you read Carol Drinkwater’s other books. They are all fascinating and shouldn’t be missed

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!

Superbly written, just like her other books. An adventure few of us would take ourselves, but incredibly interesting. Highly recommended.

The Olive Tree is a wonderful novel to begin my summer holidays. It is an enjoyable read as Carol Drinkwater is a thoughtful, humourous writer. I recommend it completely.

I read Carol’s first book about the house she and Michel bought in the hills above Cannes in the south of France and throughly enjoyed it. In the overgrown grounds they find olive trees and become olive oil producers. In this book, the author travels the western Mediterranean in search of the history of olive cultivation. ( There is a first volume where she travels the eastern Mediterranean). Fortunately the time spent describing olives and their cultivation is not overdone and most of the book is about the places she visits and their history. Her writing is excellent - warm and wonderfully descriptive. She is also an intrepid traveller, unfazed by several challenging circumstances she encounters. Of particular interest for me was reading of her time in North Africa, especially Algeria, a country where few westerners venture, but from what I’ve seen on the documentary, ‘Above Algeria’, surprising and quite stunning.