'Italy life, Italy strife and happy wife'...Pete wanted that as a title for this episode!
We do think we are bit mad sometimes and we're pretty sure the locals do as well, while we're out on the land sweating with our 10-hour days and everyone else is either at the beach or enjoying the Puglian food! The great news is, however, that it's beginning to make a difference to the health of the trees, diversity of wildlife and the quality of produce that the land rewards us with. This episode is all about the changes we've made to the management of our 4-acre patch of land with its 120 olive trees and 50 fruit/nut trees in Southern Italy and the differences we've seen as a result. Our aim was always to establish a healthy balance with nature whilst achieving self-sufficiency as far as possible. The place certainly looks very different to its surroundings, what do you think?

Our website has more info about the our project at La Bolla: https://www.labollapuglia.co.uk. We'd be delighted if you subscribed for the 3-weekly future episodes about renovation of this beautiful original stone lamia, energy and water self-sufficiency, land management of the 4-acre olive and fruit orchard and dry gardening. We are also on Instagram at @LaBollaPuglia and love getting your comments and questions.
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