Meknes Countryside

On the outskirts of our town lies a quiant olive farm and a growing business. Reda and his wife Katrina started this business in the last couple of years and have quickly produced some of the best olive oil in the country.

After inheriting the local farm from his father, Reda got to work planting trees and gathering his equipment. A few short years later, he is busy shipping these beautiful bottles of Extra Virgin Olive Oil to various places throughout Europe and Canada.

Olive Farm Business Sign

A few little known facts about the Olive Oil business:
* Once you plant an olive tree, it takes 5 years to yield good olives
* It is an alternating year tree. One year you get plenty of good olives and the next year you get very few.
* November and December are the primary months for making the Oil. The rest of the year, they sit back and sell their product.

It was quite a fun experience that day to take the kids out to the countryside and let them run around. Unfortunately, the machine wasn’t running so we couldn’t watch the entire process. But that does get me excited about this coming up winter.

Another way that Reda helps to alleviate his costs is to “rent out” his machinary to the local farmers and let them produce oil from their own olive farms. Quite the ingenious business idea.

Not only does he produce great olive oil, but as a testimony, we have now started using it in our cooking classes at Savor Morocco and have gotten great reviews over it.