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Eddie Walker asked me to take pictures of our stone wall repair project which I did and posted in the Rural Living forum, as long as I had the iPad out to take pictures I took a quick snap of our garden showing the Basil Plants growing. We use this basil to make basil infused olive oil and here...

Many of you have been following along on 2 threads in the Related Topics Forum concerning our olive oil from Provence France. Eddie Walker asked me to post pictures of our stone wall repair so I thought I would post them over here in Rural Living as this seemed the most appropriate forum for...

My daughter made a Facebook page for our Mas Des Bories Olive Oil and I have been negligent posting pictures on it, so I got to that today. I thought maybe TBNers would enjoy because they have a tractor in them. The tractor is ancient and burns oil but it runs! Our neighbor Claude who is retired...

My husband and I would really appreciate your help and advice on our Olive Press/Mill Project. We looked at many options and it looks like we are going to go with converting a 40 High Cube shipping container into the building to house the press. After 3 years we then intend to build a regular...

Last week we took a Bronze Medal in Paris for our AOC Provence Olive oil and today i called the editor of Der Feinschmecker Magazine in Germany and found out that our Bouteillan Olive Oil was selected in the Top 50 in the World. Last year in Germany they picked our AOC as the Best Oil of France...

We are selling my husband's restaurant becaue the guy we sold it to quit paying and closed the doors. So we have it back. I have a thread on this in Related Topics so I won't repeat everything here. It looks like we have it sold but we come to find out that possibly the water heater was replaced...

If you have read my other threads you are aware that my husband and I are facing financial challenges right now. I hope by the time today is over we will be home free. In the meantime I am looking for every opportunity not to spend money. 2008 has turned out to be a horrible year for us, I can...

Grrrr what a time we are having this year. First off as I posted in the Related Topics Forum a while back our life has not been going that great lately. Regardless of that mess, the olive trees are ready to be picked and we have to focus on that. It is a great year for olives, everybody has...

This is a bitter sweet post. The bitter part is the guy we sold my husband's restaurant to 7 years ago quit paying and we are gettin it back. We sold it on a Lond Contract which is different than a mortgage. On a Land Contract the title is in the purchasers name after the last payment is made...

Hey I bet that Topic Heading really attacted all the hunters. :D Oh well this is probably not going to be as thrilling as you think. Last night it really poured rainn herre which is good it ahs been dry and it will really help the olives to plump out, hopefully with oil. They say rains in...

Years ago I had a Planters wart and let it go as I had never had one before and didn't knwo what it was. I jsut assumed whatever was irritating my foot would get better. Eventually it became very painful and I went to the doctor and then onto a podiatrist. He used a laser to remove it and man...

In a week my hubby and i iwll be comeing back to the states and while there I wanted to address a problem we are having. We worked hard building up tourism visits and also locals who come to our farm to buy olive oil directly from us. The problem we have is that we are working in the fields or...

Mis en Bouch is like a littly tiny appetiser. We are making the party round with a group of our friends, all olvie farmers, and it was our turn to host. I bought these cute little "spoons" as they say in French. You use these spoons for preparing Mis en Bouches. Now normally at a restaurant...

It is knd of funny that we onw a farm yet I have not found a place to plant a garden. For 2 years I ahve had a container garden. Now that we built a patio off the back of our house next year I will have an excellent convenient spot for a garden. I know myself well enough to know that any garden...

We ahve been real buys ont he olive farm, it just never seems to let up, we always have something to do and more that we should be doing. Had so much rain in May and June the weeds are out of control and my hsuband has to rototill allt he fields again. Which means picking up allt he drip...

I was wondering if any of our members are near any of the 1,000 fires burning in California?

Good news! Last week-end the results were announced from the Los Angeles County Fair Olive Oil Competition. We did pretty good. Probalby everyone here knows already since I have explained it several times, but just in case. Olives are like any other fruit, in that the varietal of the tree and...

I have to admit i have been reading more than posting, primarily because it is the pruning season and my husband and i just work, work, work, eat dinner, fall asleep in front of the tv or laptop, wake up in the morning and repeat. We have a couple more piles to burn, and i have a few more trees...

My uncle, God rest hsi soul, lived in rural Wisconsin and once told us a story about visiting some friends of his who were Native American. He tries to walk in the front door which is open with a blanket hanging over the opening, and there is a long tree trunk sticking out the doorway. So he...

I read this interesting article and thought it was pretty interesting They selected the BEST UTV's on the market and I think did a very nice job. ATV Illustrated - PUBLISHER’S UTV PICKS The Club Car really caught my eye with the front end hydrauhlics, bucket fork, etc for $14,000 MSRP. so I...

Finally we got some relief from the hot Provence sun. In May a local craftsman designed, built and installed a wraught iron pergola for us. I was in the states in May and brought home really really heavy tarps which i purchased at Cover Me Tarps and Canopies for the covering. I used tenders to...

guess what? one of our best customers Kevin Walker from cherokee town & Country Club just won 2007 Chef of the Year Southeast region from the American Culinary Federation 2007 ACF Convention Kevin is a Certified Master Chef, of which there are only 56 in the United States. For 3 years now we...

I keep wating for that down period and by golly it just never seems to arrive. My husband finished picking the almonds on Friday which was not a big revenue source for us this year. Actually my husband picked all the almonds this year and then sold them at the wholesale market. We probably...

I have never cared for the taste of diet soda, jsut could never get past that aspartin (sp?) taste. However for the first time i am drinking a diet soda. Coke Zero, it is really good tasting and has jsut an absolute minimul alost nothing aspertin taste. if you are a regular soda drinker and want...

Happy Birthday to Me! What a great birthday present I received today. Finally iGourmet.com has Mas Des Bories Olive Oil for sale, on line.:p ( Pretend there is that icon of the little green guy jumping up and down placed right here) Whew! It has been a long haul since buying the olive farm...

I kknow I read more of the Rural Living Forum thant he Announcements Forum. I do check in the Announcements Forum not not as frequently as this forum. Over here http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1163292#post1163292 I am so delighted to share some fantastic news about our...

I have some very good news I wanted to share. My husband and I are thrilled to have found out today that we again did extreemly well at the 2007 Olive Oils of the World competition at the Los Angeles County Fair :) Whoo Hooo we also won in 2006 BEST IN SHOW International Light Olive Oil. This...

My husband really should not have been operating the chainsaw last Wednesday. He was not feeling well. He jsut finshed a massive, and I mean massive clearing project that he did all by hand with a lopers, a shainsaw and a brush cutter. He had worked really hard on that project for a good 2...

Since we have been participating in a big olive oil competiton in Germany and for the last 2 years (waiting on this years judging right now) made the cut as being one of the best olive oils int he world, we were asked to send in samples of our olive oil to a chemical research center in Hagen...

I read topic after topic on this website about people having issues with their neighbors and they will take considerable time and go to great efforts to go around and around talkng with different neighbors, government officals etc., but never talk man to man directly with their neighbors. I...

Last September when my husband went to visit my son in Guinea Africa is when I had to take a time out form TBN. I was alone and so much to do and then when he got back it was go-go-go all the way through the harvest to December. I really should have shared these pics earlier, sorry. my son is...

We ahve had a streak of good weather which has allowed my husband and myself to get a jup on pruning the olive trees. Last eyar we did about 700 of them and so this year we have another 700 of them. This farm had a farmhand but we cna't figure out what he actually did. the trees were left to...

I have never been up close to a gun going off, only hear them in the distance from the hunters. Today i am outside pruning the olive trees and there is this huge BOOM right on top of me. Then i could smell sulfur. Wow, somebody is shooting at me I thought. I look around and i see the neighbor...

I so much enjoy it when people post pictures that I though I would take the time to share a few photographs I took over Christmas at my sister and brother in laws house, in France. My brother in law (Italian) is from a small village outside Florence. He did his apprentice in carpentry and when...

Recently I got a windows upgrade and got the new version of Intenet Explorer that has tabs. I use my middle moue button to click on links and open the linked webpage in a new tab. Fairly frequently, especially when I have a lot of tabs going, when I click on a link to open a web page in a new...

I never see much on the Made in USA Land Pride Trecker So here is a link to a review http://www.landpride.com/lit/lit_vehicles/ATVIll_Trek10.pdf

I never watched much TV in USA but there were a few shows I really liked. I have been occasionally buying TV shows via iTunes. But now LOOK! An aswer to my prayers. I was looking at video clips over at ABC and saw a newclip form COMDEX, the big consumer electronics show. I think it was COMDEX...

I wasn't going to write about this project because it was so dippy. Here in southern France very few people have window screens mainly I suppose because they don't have mosquitos around here. Our home has only 3 windows and all the rest of the rooms have sliding patio doors. Each bedroom a...

My hsuband has to take the tractor up some really step slopes, and the tractor path has become quite eroded. It is pretty scary. So I think we should cement the tractor paths that go up the big hills. Some of our farmer freinds have cemented theirs so I know I am not crazy for wanting to do...

My husband and I ahve been quite busy on a project of laying, I don't know the right word they are brick like things that interlock, I think it might be called pavers, as a floor in a stone Borie (stone shepherd houses that look like igloos built in the late 17 & early 18 centuries). Little...

There have been a few neighbor threads so I thought I would share mine. Seems the $WD Goldini tactor would not go in 4WD. Ny hsuband spoke to our neighbor who is a retired mechanic and he said he knew jsut what it was, that he had fixed the tractor for the previous owners of our porperty. He...

I would think this belongs in Rural Living, after all what can me more rural than an olive farm? So many of you on this forum have been so helpful to my husband and myself learning about farming equipment and other challenges that I thought I would share some good news from the Olive Farm...

For those of you making ponds, and I believe there are several here on TBN, you might want to stock them with a fish called, Koi. Your pond could end up to be a money maker for you. Apparently Koi sell for $900 Dolalrs a piece! That is some serious money. My son raised quaker parrots when he...

No reaosn to write tonight other than looking for sympathy/encouragement. The olive harvest was over in December, and you have not lived until you have slung a big roll of net on yur back and hiked up steep hillside terraces, carrying the net on your back, in order to lay it down on the next...

Don't know if any of you ever look at the www.HGTV.com website, but every year they build a Dream Home and give it away. This year they built a very unique house that used log veneer, and since so many of the people here on TBN seem to like a rustic look you may be interested in watching this...

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Now compared to all your projects this is not that much of a project but I am still pretty happy with the way it came out. I bought some wheels at the hardware store and attached them to the bottom of a pallet to make a dolly for the rototiller. The Moracan farm worker had one but he did a poor...

My husband and i cleaned out the barn and we moved these two plows, I call them the Red one and the Blue one, out fo the barn and into the pump house. Man were they heavy. I will post on this post and the next one the photos of the Blue Plow. Can anyone kindly tell me the name of the plow and...

Just for fun, I thought I would post a couple pictures of the olive farm. There is not much to do at the moment besides bottling the oil. Mid February when the almond trees are in pink bud we have to spray to kill this one insect that attacks one (out of 2) varieties of our alond trees. Then...

Here in Salon de Provence we have the French Air School for air areobatics. It is so cool, it is about 1/2 - 1 mile from the farm. The team flys in formations and will go straight up ad then peel off. They use colors in their contrails, red, white and blue. It is so pleasent to be on the farm...

My husband and I are still learning about the equipment that cmae on the farm. I jsut helped my huband for the first time put on the big huge rototiller on the 3ph. Man was that scarey!!! He had to stand between the tractor and the rototiller while I slowly backe upt he tractor. He has put on...

I'm in southern France, where it doesn't snow, well once evry few years we might get a dusting. It is not tropical like Florida, I'm in the mid 30's at night and in the daytime in the winter the temperature can varry between 40's - 60's. It is real hot in the summer and it basically doesn't...

Hey dudes and dudetts, I always enjoy reading your forum but have noticed it has been a bit quiet lately. Aybody doing anything interesting with their Toolcats? Have their been any changes to the website? I'm still waiting on the low priced model that is supposedly n development. Till then I...

There have been a few posts about the MultiOne, a skid ster made in Europe, Italy I think. I found pricing on them, sorry for the French but I think you can figure out the prices and the models...

A couple people mentioned Avant Tractors, here was one post http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=powertrac&Number=780724 By Ducati on 12/1/05 They are made in Finland and since I am living in France I thought I would check them out. Here-...

We have owned the olive farm for a year and a half now and I have been afraid to drive the tractors. With pretty good reason, we have a lot of hills. I feel a little bit like Goldilocks, the Goldini Tractor is to big and the Staub articulating tractor looks to small. I finally screwed up the...

You see on some saller tractors that they accept a catagory o o1 1 equipment on their 3pt hitch. Other tractors say they accept a catagory 2 on a 3pt hitch. What is the difference?

Whe you look at tractors for vinyards and orchards they show tractors with 4 large tires all the same size. When you look at other tractors they have small tires in the front and big tires in the back. Why is that?

I was on a website for European used tractors and found Isekis on there. Then I also found it as a forum on TBN. On one of your posts someone provided a link to the Iseki website, I assume Japan (?) I saw this machine on it. What do you think this machine does...

All right, this is probably a dumb question, but here goes. On our 12 acre olive farm we have to give the trees cow manure twice a year. We have a tractor and we have a spreader that attaches to the back fo the tractor, must be a PTO one because that is all this farm has is PTO equipment. The...

On the link below is an eBay Auction for a 2004 Kubota L5030 88 Hours Looks Brand New in the photograph The seller offers it to buy outright, for just $3,500? This seems to good to be true, what do you think...

Some of oyu will remember me, my husband and I bought an olie farm in Provence France and I asked a lot of tractor questions earlier in the year. So far he has not had a tractor accident. As soon as we get the money we would like to get a Utility Vehicle. Our farm is only 12 acres but at les...

My husband and I are new at farming and he has to drive the tractor up some really steep hills. The path is hardpacked dirt. His tires turn but he doesn't move, going up. If we dug a trench and stuck some 2 x 6's on end, lengthwise, so that the the 8ft board was dug into the dirt lenghwise...

I love this Community!!! Everyone here knows so much and I know nothing at all about equipment, so I am so excited to join. My husband and I are new farmers, really new, like a couple months new. Neither one of us has a farming background. We purchasd an olive farm in Provence France and it has...