The Olive Farm

Kato Samiko, Peloponnese, Greece

 

The Olive Farm was originally built in around 1928 as a typical single-story Greek stone-built farmhouse, surrounded by what were then open fields for the growing of wheat to make bread. By around 1950, at the end of the Greek civil war, the wheat fields had been abandoned, and were instead planted with olive trees. The farmhouse is therefore surrounded by mature olive trees, most of which are fifty to sixty years old, with a sprinkling of much larger trees, some of which are at least 200 years old.

 

  

 

The house itself was in an extremely sorry state when we bought it in 2004, and has had to be completely rebuilt, which work was finished in 2006.

The veranda runs the entire length of the house (approximately 17 metres), and has a rapidly maturing garden with a variety of traditional Greek plants such as bougainvillia and geranium, but mixed in are more English flowers, such as clematis and ipomea. Pergolas surround the three sides of the house not given over to the veranda, and passion-flower, grape-vines, Kiwi-fruit and other climbers all vie for attention.

     

 

 

Two double bedrooms and a spacious bathroom make up half of the house, with the other half a single open-plan room comprising kitchen, dining area and sitting-room.

 

   

 

 

The kitchen is made from solid wood cabinets with beech doors, and all doors and windows are of hand-crafted wood, as is the vaulted ceiling and much of the furniture. A wood-burning stove provides more heat than you can cope with, should you need it, and we are happy to provide you with as much wood as you need, cut from the olive trees each December when we harvest the olives. The entire house is also air-conditioned from the sitting-room, for those days when Greece is just a little too hot for comfort.

     

About the property

Contact us by email: enquiries@theolivefarm.biz

By Post:TK123, Zacharo, 27054, N Ilias, Greece

By telephone:0030 26250 71429

By Mobile (and SMS): +30 693 868 7464