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The story of life on a French olive farm continues with this moving memoir of hard work, hard luck, and waiting for the return of happiness.
Carol Drinkwater and her husband, Michel, arrive at their villa in Provence in anticipation of another glorious summer. Unfortunately, they find the farm unkempt and suffering from lack of rainfall. When their gardener, Monsieur Quashia, finally shows up, he cheerfully explains the shed-building project he's...
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An olive farmer journeys through Spain, Italy, and North Africa to find the future of agriculture in an age of chemicals and climate challenges.
Carol Drinkwater's beloved olive farm in the South of France was suffering badly from destructive pests and premature ripening. In a hunt for answers, she decided to set out on her own for a fact-finding tour of Spain, Italy, Morocco, and Algeria.
In The Olive Tree, Carol recounts not only the agricultural...
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"A lovely balance of memoir, travelogue and olive-growing how-to . . . Some of her adventures are quite funny." -Publishers Weekly
In this memoir, the author of The Olive Farm returns to the ten-acre property for which she and her fiancé scraped together their savings to buy-just back from their wedding on a tiny Polynesian island, loaded down with luggage and a large hand-painted didgeridoo. As Carol and Michel settle in as husband and wife,...
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The author of acclaimed memoirs about life on a French olive farm explores the larger history and culture of the Mediterranean delicacy.
Carol Drinkwater has a passion for olive trees and the fruit they bear-"bitter berries" that are transformed into savory delights and pressed into precious oil. Already intimately familiar with the fruit thanks to her olive farm in the South of France, she decided to travel throughout the Mediterranean basin-from...
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Hollywood agent Charlie Greene gets tangled up in a world of holistic intervention, out-of-body experiences, and murder in this thrilling paranormal mystery Hollywood literary agent and single mother Charlie Greene heads out of town to fog-bound Moot Point, Oregon, to meet a client,...
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At a small farm in Provence, a woman tries to do her part to save the bees-and the planet-in this stirring, entertaining memoir.
After a long research trip, Carol Drinkwater is back home with her husband, Michel, on their olive farm in the south of France. She's overjoyed, but also has something serious on her mind: the ecological threats to their own farm-and countless others. The die-off of honey bees has reached crisis levels globally, and...
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