During the first few months of 2026, rainfall has been very abundant—too much, in fact, in many areas. In our case, we’ve had as much rain in January, February and March as we would normally receive over an entire year.
What happens with so much rain? Well, the ground often turns to mud, and the stability of the trees decreases. If you combine that with a day of strong winds, you get the result you can see in the photos.
Across all the olive groves we have, the wind knocked over quite a number of olive trees. The almond trees weren’t affected, as they are still very young and, during the winter period, they have virtually no canopy since they’ve just been pruned.
Fortunately, just a few days after all this damage occurred, we were able to lift them back up thanks to the work of a backhoe. In the end, a few olive trees were lost, but not many, even though the number that fell was quite high.
As for the olive trees that have dried out as a result of root damage, we now need to remove them and replace them with new ones… and we’ll have to wait several years again before they start producing olives. That’s farming.
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