Welcome to the Olive Picking Website

Bringing you the best olive picking holidays and experiences: help with the olive harvest or adopt an olive tree; whatever you decide you will be rewarded with your own fabulous extra virgin olive oil.

This website is designed to guide you to the best olive picking holidays showing you where you can participate in the olive harvest. You can choose to spend as little as half a day to several weeks picking olives. On an olive picking holiday you will be working and staying in beautiful surroundings (olive groves are often full of wild flowers and butterflies), you will receive a warm welcome from owners keen to share with you their way of life and gain the satisfaction of helping to gather in the harvest. Even better you will discover that nothing tastes nicer than fresh extra virgin olive oil produced from the olives that you have helped to hand pick from the tree and will have watched being pressed in the local mill.

If Olive Picking isn't for you the website also brings you a hand picked range of other olive related experiences ... walking and cycling tours through olive groves, books written by people living the dream, olive oil festivals and museums to visit, information on olive cultivation including growing, harvesting and production methods, find out where to buy hundred year old olive trees, extra virgin olive oil, olive oil beauty products  ... in fact everything a lover of olives and olive oil could possibly want ...

Why not read some of the journalists go olive picking reports on this website and then explore the holidays on offer in Italy, Spain, Greece, France, Turkey and Croatia to discover your personal favourite? 

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Olive Picking Holidays

This is the ideal holiday if you have ever sat at your desk and longed to take time out to experience a more traditional way of life? One where the changing seasons dictate the work that needs to be done. Now imagine tasting some of the freshest olive oil you've ever sampled and knowing exactly where it came from and how it was harvested - maybe you even helped to pick the fruit from the olive tree yourself! That experience is just a mouse click away!

Do you love extra virgin olive oil? 

If so you may have wondered about the journey olives take from the tree to the bottle. It is still possible to discover small artisan producers of olive oil who are happy to share their experience of the olive harvest so you can have the opportunity to take part in this ancient process. Olive picking holidays allow you to help with the olive harvest even if you have never tried anything like this before: NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! 

Adopt an Olive Tree

Alternatively find out how you can adopt an olive tree and soon you'll be enjoying your very own fabulous extra virgin olive oil ... this makes a great and unusual present choice at a very affordable price. Maybe you will even decide to visit your tree.

Olive Oil Experiences

If you only have time for a short break take a look at our olive oil experiences.  There are half day, full day and weekend options available and include an olive oil dinner in Madrid, an olive farm in Mallorca where you will be collected from your Palma hotel or cruise ship ...

Olive Oil Products

Explore our olive oil beauty tips and olive oil based products - great for your skin and your budget!

Travel Shop 

Short of time? You can now book car hire, flights, hotels, train tickets and more from this site - making planning your olive picking holiday even easier.

Why not visit our travel shop using the button below now!