Holidays and Olive Oil
Hi all,
As some of you know already, every year at Pippa’s Paddock we harvest a very small amount of olives and press them here in Alia to produce some of our delicious Olive Oil. We only have around 50 trees and our production is really small. In the early year we only …
Educational Seminar on Olive Pruning for maximum yield.
Last week I was lucky enough to have been invited to an educatioal seminar organised by the local council of a nearby village to ours – Valledolmo. The seminar was organised in order to show the local olive growers some of the modern studies leading to very different …
Interesting Educational Seminar on Olive Tree Pruning. Read More »
Finally !… MCAST Group 2 video clip arrives.
The second group of MCAST students from Malta also concluded their educational tour of farming and animal husbandry methods adopted in Sicily. The tours have been organised by some of the MCAST staff in collaboration with Pippa’s Paddock and have provided the visitor’s with both knowledge and …
Second student group from MCAST (Malta) on educational tour. Read More »
Last weekend Alia again held its annual farmers fair with people attending from the surrounding towns and villages. Its only a small fair but sweet and interesting in its own way. There were some nice animals to see, but I was disappointed to discover that there was no horse parade, or indeed, horses on display …
Alia holds its annual animal fair – and Pippa cooks for the multitudes !! Read More »
Lecturers Malcolm Borg and Giancarlo Borg lead the first 2 groups of MCAST students on their educational tour of Sicilian animal farming.
I would like to think that the first 2 groups of students have both enjoyed and benefitted from their educational tour organised by us. We did many things in the space of four days. …
Students from the MCAST school (Malta) visit Pippa’s Paddock on educational tour. Read More »