Foraging & RewildingWeekend workshop

Olive Harvest & Mediterranean Foodways

Dio Pigadia Olive Collective · Mesochori, Greece

Join the olive harvest and learn to press, cure, and cook the Mediterranean way above the Aegean.

Harvest and press the olive cropCure olives and bottle fresh oilCook a feast from the grove and garden

What you'll learn

Harvest and press olives for oil
Cure olives and preserve the harvest
Cook simple Mediterranean dishes

What the land gains

The olive terraces harvested and tended
Dry-stone terrace walls mended in the grove

The host site

Dio Pigadia Olive Collective

An olive-grove ecovillage above the Aegean

Old olive terraces step down a Greek hillside toward the sea, tended by a small ecovillage rebuilding soil and water by hand. Harvest, pressing, and preserving shape the calendar, and the table is always full.

Your teacher

Amara Okafor

Clinical herbalist & wild-food forager

4.9 · 87 reviews · 12 yrs teaching