Delia's choice - Mother's
Garden Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Mother's Garden Priorat Extra Virgin Olive Oil has been named as an ingredient in Delia Smith's bestseller - How To Cheat At Cooking.
Britain's favourite cook lists the fresh oil we carefully select from the local villages in the Priorat mountains of Southern Catalonia near our farm - oil that we sell in 500ml bottles through delis, farm shops and other fine food outlets, and direct to restaurant kitchens larger quantities.
See our olive oil page for full details.
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And we have a new UK distributor for shop distribution - respected and experienced Fratelli Camisa.
We ask that any fine food outlets wishing to stock our oil to contact them direct on 01992 763076 - see www.camisa.co.uk.
Our direct-to-you fresh extra virgin olive oil business, the Mother's Garden Mill Run, is starting to grow and we are very grateful to the support and interest of private and business customers.
The Mill Run - which has already spread from our Norfolk home base as far as London, Oxfordshire and Hampshire - is as simple and as good for you as fresh quality olive oil.
By talking and working with chefs and also groups of people we call hubs we aim to be uncompromising on the things that matter, the quality of food, the flavour and real benefits of fresh olive oil, and the need to try and cut packaging and transport.
Meanwhile there is a great deal of work going on at the farm. Land is being prepared for a new vineyard and volunteers will be coming from the UK to help. If you are interested in hands-on breaks please get in touch. The aim is to offer Spring and Autumn working holidays. Tasks could include tree pruning, coppicing, wooding and planting, so drop us an email at mothersgarden.es@gmail.com or telephone 0034 977 178346.
The Spring and Autumn are wonderful for bird watching and walking and for people who want to be in the heart of a world famous wine region during the grape and olive harvests.
See holiday link at the top of this page for more information.
You can also relax by the pool, take the train to Roman Tarragona or bustling Barcelona or the beaches, or let us guide you on walks or to the best cellars and restaurants. We have almost finished work on a garden studio which will be used for yoga, massage, painting and other classes. Interested? Get in touch.
And see Amazon books or ask in your local bookshop for details of Martin Kirby's book No Going Back - Journey to Mother's Garden (Time Warner) which is now in four languages.

Mother's Garden fresh olive oil, and the family at home - Martin, Joe Joe, Maggie and Ella

Novel may be film

Martin's Norfolk-based novel Count The Petals Of The Moon Daisy (ISBN 978 190 349 0297) published in April and top of the Jarrolds bestseller chart for months, could be made into a film.
Martin has signed a film option with Eye Film & Television and planning is now going ahead. Watch this space.
Count the Petals of the Moon Daisy is inspirational on many levels, not least orf which is going with the urge to follow our own dreams .... It is informative and entertaining and to be recommended as a summer holiday read - particularly for anyone holidaying in Norfolk
- Annie Hirst, Norfolk Magazine

A gripping, compelling and
beautiful tale.
It has great depth and wisdom even for those who already know the truth of the message; that to restore the worn and troubled spirit it is necessary to actually engage with wildlife.
- Margaret Bird, Harnser Magazine

More and more people keep coming back to the peace and beauty of Mother's Garden. They come for the walking, the wildlife, space and freedom.

This is what some of our 2007 holiday cottage visitors had to say after staying on the farm

Thank you to a beautiful, humble family full of the joy and magic of life.
KR Toronto Canada

Even more peaceful and beautiful than we imagined - and cake to die for
PC Yorkshire

A week to remember for your kindness and care. Mother's Garden will be a lasting memory JS Norfolk

Thought, care and kindness, from the first welcoming smile at Reus Airport. Over too soon, but so much to treasure JK Norfolk

I really enjoyed my stay and wish I could stay longer. I loved shopping in Tarragona and the view from the top of the mountain was amazing. thank you for giving me such a lovely memory.
EK (15) Norfolk

Joe Joe is just the coolest kid I have ever met. Just amazing holiday. FW Berkshire

The surroundings are brilliant. Thanks to Ella and Joe Joe for showing us a good time. This place is beyond my wildest dreams.
AJ (12) London

This is my fourth time. Ella is one of my best friends and it is fab spending time with her on the best farm ever! JS London

Our second visit and still more than lives up to expectations. We will be back!. RD England

Having read "No Going Back" at home I found a copy on the bookshelf and was soon into reading it again. Every page came to life. What a spot on God's earth.
DH Norfolk, England

What a beautiful place! We have had a great time - so much to see, to do - or so little.. VM Oxfordshire

The mellowness is so good for one's head. A wonderful week. AA Yorkshire

Lovely place, amazingly good time
AS Scotland

Thank you for everything - from almond harvesting to pyjama parties!. FD (12) Norfolk
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Timless wisdom - and
Bach in the balsa

CONCERT IDEA - Maggie with cellist Jurgen
in the old water balsa where we could
stage recitals

It is our happy habit on a weekend to open the bedroom window to let any dawn breeze tease the lace curtain, to make tea and to read to one another.
We have tried all sorts of literature, but 1940s and 50s nature writers like American Donald Culross Peattie and East Anglians Ted Ellis, Lilias Rider Haggard and their ilk are our firm favourites because their books are wisdom and wonder rolled into one. They uplift us.
About a month ago I went back to my bookshelf and my hands reached for Lilias, this time the third of her Faber and Faber volumes, A Country Scrapbook.
These are words that, for the most part, were written in the darkest hours of the second world war when Britain faced invasion.
Lilias was the daughter of Sir Henry Rider Haggard who was best known for his African adventure novels, notably King Solomon's Mines and She.
Lilias's gift is for fact not fiction, and her genius is to weave her wonder of nature with greater truths, to lead the reader into an abandoned orchard locked with brambles and there to feel the chill and sense how and why "the tight-cupped pink-tipped apple blossom seems loth to open on to an unkind world".