Okay, who are my olive fans? Do you love olives as much as I do? Do you prefer them green and salty or black and mild? As for me, I just like them anyway they come. Did you know that Morocco grows some of the best olives in the world?! Even with the drought that has been here for the past ten years, there are still millions of olives grown here in this area where I live, near Meknes. Did you find it on the map yet? I am in the heart of olive country, and here olives are a way of life. Even if a family doesn't eat olives, they definitely consume olive oil everyday, with every meal. I call it '"liquid gold. It's even used on the skin (I do this every night) and on the hair, a practice which many people in North Africa and in the Mediterranean area have done for thousands of years.
According to what I have read and what I have heard from the local people, the soil conditions of this region, along with the mild winters and summers, make ideal growing conditions for olives. Morocco also gets the hot winds from the Sahara. In fact, just as in Palestine and other olive producing countries, you can find olive trees that are over 100 years old! What's the oldest tree that you know about?
