Today with the last data from our weather station in May it is confirmed that this May is officially the second warmest 21.2C) after 22.8C in 2013. Addionally, it is the driest, 4.8 mm of rain since 2010 that we started collecting data. It also...
It is common knowledge that whether patterns have been greatly affected by the greenhouse effect. Temperatures and rainfall are tw abiotic factors that play a major role in the production of olives. This April, in Kranidi we had the second coldest time since 2011 that...
Just a small post to compare temperatures in January in rhizoma olive farms from 2012-2017 (so far). The average temperature is 10.7 degrees Celcius and the lowest was 8.6 recorded in 2011 whereas the highest was 12.9 in 2015. It would be interesting to correlate...
I appreciate that this is not news for most of us out in the field trying to look after our trees and animals for this dry spel. But the average temperature as I was saying to a producer friend from Puglia, is almost 3 degrees...
With another favourable spell of cool weather this June and with all this magic rain our trees are growing in full swing. 2.8mm per week is the growth in diameter of the trunk for "koroneiki". We feel extremely lucky to have planted our trees during...
Measuring our new trees' growth makes us feel happy that our newly planted trees are happy with their environment and nothing is missing. At the same time we witness the first bloom of our 3 years old trees. On their branches the seeds of next...