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Join us at Tenuta Le Mandorlaie for an Olive tree planting holiday and enjoy being surrounded by nature in unspoiled Maremma Tuscany, eat Tuscan food with us and plant incredible Olive trees. Why run this sort of holiday break As a small family farm the payment for your olive tree planting break will ultimately be funding the purchase of the trees, your holiday break itself is our thank you for helping the environment around us. It is our goal to plant trees and what better way than sharing the experience of the olive groves with others. All trees planted will have been organically grown, and are certified virus free More detail, Itinerary Day

As part of the farm plan to increase the amount of olives and grapes that we can harvest, we felt it was the right time to start adding some new olive trees. We decided that adding 200 new trees every year would be enough work for us to handle in the winter time, in between the other farm projects and work, and adding our trees in this way would slowly but steadily increase our olive crop yield. Reducing the risk of olive tree disease Adding the trees over time would also limit the financial risk incase any of the olive diseases that are becoming more prevalent in Europe would make

After the hectic time of the grape harvest, where we harvested all our grapes which are now fermenting and are fast on their way to becoming Tenuta Le Mandorlaie's first Reserve wine, its now time to do some maintenance around the olive trees in readiness for the olive harvest. We never forget how hard our olive trees are working, first they to choose to flower over making more foliage, and then they choose to hold onto the olives that are right now increasing in size and getting ready to harvest and be made into our incredible organic extra virgin olive oil. This weeks work is cleaning under the olive trees,

Enjoy wine and food holiday experiences Most of us travel to experience new locations, senses, smells and many of us when having our vacations enjoy planning the chance to savor and learn about local cuisine and wines. Research has shown that up to 70% of us (when we travel) seek to taste new foods and experience new wines, with this in mind we are always working to add more chances for our guests at Tenuta Le Mandorlaie to experience Maremma food and wine, as well as enjoy enotourism and oleotourism, the celebration and enjoyment of learning about the creation of the incredible extra virgin olive oil and organic wines that

So what is Oleotourism? Recently the phrase was taken in to law in Italy, so what does this mean for the future of olive tourism and what does it offer to visitors interested in the olive oil cycle? Oleotourism is the support, celebration and promotion of the olive oil industry and all its associated and relevant facets, from olive tree cultivation, tree growth, pruning, farms that operate olive oil businesses, agriturismo's that also create olive oil, olive oil mills and the companies and brands that work within the area of olive oil sales. Olive Oil as a destination In the same way the wine tourism exists and is known as