A farm amid the delightful countryside of southern Spain, it's a dream come true for fugitives from urban stress.In a series of chapters mingling practical information with folklore and anecdote Sandy Walker has created an informative and interesting book about life on a farm in Spain.
Covering a large number of trees fruits and shrubs this book contains practical advice for those with land:how do you grow a grapevine, prune an olive tree, control the prickly pears, ensure a bumper crop of oranges or almonds? However for those who are simply interested in knowing more about the countryside they travel through, or holiday in, this book is packed with history and anecdote as well as amusing tales.
When Sandy moved to rural Andalusia 30 years ago she and husband Andy undertook the reform of an ancient olive mill along with the surrounding groves. Being complete novices to farming they took advice from friendly neighbours as well as experts and through years of experience learned the ways of the Campo
[ countryside].
Eleven years ago Sandy gathered her accumulated knowledge into this book which has proved invaluable for many people living in Spain as well as interesting and entertaining for armchair farmers and those simply traveling through Mediterranean Europe where the trees and shrubs are similar to those of Andalucia.
Whether you want to know what to do with ten sacks of almonds or how olives are cured - or you simply wish to know more about those long bean-like pods hanging from the trees and what those large swathes of cane along the rivers are used for - this book will answer those questions and many more.
Covering a large number of trees fruits and shrubs this book contains practical advice for those with land:how do you grow a grapevine, prune an olive tree, control the prickly pears, ensure a bumper crop of oranges or almonds? However for those who are simply interested in knowing more about the countryside they travel through, or holiday in, this book is packed with history and anecdote as well as amusing tales.
When Sandy moved to rural Andalusia 30 years ago she and husband Andy undertook the reform of an ancient olive mill along with the surrounding groves. Being complete novices to farming they took advice from friendly neighbours as well as experts and through years of experience learned the ways of the Campo
[ countryside].
Eleven years ago Sandy gathered her accumulated knowledge into this book which has proved invaluable for many people living in Spain as well as interesting and entertaining for armchair farmers and those simply traveling through Mediterranean Europe where the trees and shrubs are similar to those of Andalucia.
Whether you want to know what to do with ten sacks of almonds or how olives are cured - or you simply wish to know more about those long bean-like pods hanging from the trees and what those large swathes of cane along the rivers are used for - this book will answer those questions and many more.
