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This olive tree is approximately 200 years old;

I came across this tree in Greece last year. It's amongst a few hundred trees found on a small piece of land that our family has owned for centuries and that my late grandfather tended to. The trees here are generally harvested for table olives and are now managed, by agreement, by a local farmer. I haven't seen a tree this old in Australia yet; but then again we haven't been harvesting olives for 2-3000 years.

 

There are two groves, one situated on the outskirts of the small coastal town of Akrata (a few hours drive west from Athens on the Peleponnese), and one nestled on a hill side just inland from Akrata. This is Akrata's beach;

and this is what's left of our family's original home nestled in the mountains behind Akrata, in a village called Porovitsa;

While the building has been ravaged by earthquakes and extreme bush fires over the decades, there are still small crops and olive groves being tended to around its abandoned streets.