Backyard and Outdoor Living

Fruit OF THE Gods

I will never forget driving through rural Greece for the first time and seeing grove upon grove of ancient olive trees, trunks gnarled and twisted with age, some growing in impossible locations but always with canopies laden with tempting fruit. Since olives are said to live 1000 years, I wouldn’t like to guess the age of some of the trees, but many of them must have been well over 100 years old. Maybe it’s something in the Mediterranean air or maybe it’s the

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