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olive picking holidays & olive harvest breaks
Agriturismo Villa La Rogaia
based: Umbria, Italy
website: rogaia.com
Offering a wide range of creative classes including cookery, wine tasting, dancing, painting, sculpting, writing, guided walking, herbal tours and olive picking. Classes take place at Villa La Rogaia, an outstanding wheelchair friendly country house in Umbria with pool. They serve delicious food with products from their organic farm.
| dancing (mixed styles) | salsa | cookery | painting/drawing | sculpture/carving | herbalism | wine appreciation/tasting | Italian language | writing | for people with a disability | olive picking/harvest | Italy |
GoLearnTo.com
based: London, UK
website: golearnto.com/cooking...
Indulge your passions for food and wine – Go Learn To cook in stunning locations, visit local markets, try a specialist wine tasting course or have a go at wine making. GoLearnTo.com also offer specialist courses making chocolate, pizza, pasta, tapas, cheese, or in patisserie making and more.
| cookery | chocolate | wine appreciation/tasting | wine making | olive picking/harvest | Western Europe |
SPECIAL ENTRY: In The Grove
based: Wairarapa, New Zealand
website: inthegrove.co.nz
Secluded boutique accommodation, with the olive grove as the destination. This top notch two bedroom villa is right within an olive grove, just an hour from Wellington. Watch the autumn harvest all around you, or just enjoy this beautiful setting at any time of year.
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Saint Basil Olive Grove
based: Crete, Greece
website: saintbasilolivegrove.com/olive_picking_holidays...
Unique olive picking holiday on the Greek island of Crete. Join the harvest, learn to collect and bag olives and prune the trees. See your olives pressed into extra virgin olive oil and take some home. Stay among the trees in the Olive Grove's private villas. Activity options include walking, holistic therapies and clay-shooting.
| olive picking/harvest | working/volunteer holidays | gastronomic | Crete | Greece |
Agrotourism Viganj
based: Dalmatia, Croatia
website: viganj.org/.../olive-picking
Olive picking vacation in Viganj on the Pelješac peninsula in southern Dalmatia, for one week in the fall.
| olive picking/harvest | Croatia |
Catacurian
based: Catalonia, Spain
website: catacurian.com
Courses in Spanish/Catalan cooking and appreciation of Montsant/Priorat olive oils and wines.
| olive picking/harvest | cookery | Spain |
Chianti Holidays
based: Chianti, Italy
website: albergodelchianti.it/chianti-olive-picking.asp
Chianti olive picking breaks, pick olives in the Chianti area of Italy.
| olive picking/harvest | Italy |
Hacienda Dos Olivos
based: Seville, Spain
website: haciendadosolivos.es
Classical style riding holidays on pure-bred Spanish horses, also opportunities for seasonal olive picking.
| riding | olive picking/harvest | Spain |
Taste Le Marche
based: Le Marche, Italy
website: tastelemarche.com
Tailor-made gastronomic experiences in the Le Marche region of central Italy.
| gastronomic | olive picking/harvest | Italy |
For a taste of what to expect on an olive harvest holiday take a
look at this video showing a typical family olive picking set-up in
Greece, showing different picking and gathering methods ...
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