OLIVE TREE CULTIVATION

The typical olive tree of the Pays de Grasse and the Alpes-Maritimes is the cailletier, also called the weeping olive tree because its productive branches are hanging (the pandoulliers). It produces a fruity oil full of character.
On the plots that we farm organically, we have many large trees, some more than a hundred years old, as well as an olive grove replanted about twenty years ago. The olive tree is a Mediterranean tree that does not hold grudges, so we water our trees very little. On the other hand, we fertilize them, we treat them against pests and diseases with natural means (trapping and pulverized clay), we hoe them and prune them after the harvest which takes place in winter.