The Olive Grove and Indian Parade


Wednesday to Saturday Feb 10 to 13/10

Enjoying the beautiful Arizona sunshine and visiting with our friends Lynn and Tom. On Thursday I did go for a tag-along adventure with other people from our RV Park to the Queen Creek Olive Mill outside of Phoenix. It was started by a guy from Ontario in 1998 when he moved down to the Phoenix area. He settled around Phoenix because there was a hockey league in Phoenix he could play in. It is the only Olive Glove Mill in Arizona and makes high quality extra virgin oil - the only kind anyone should be using apparently. From a ton of olives they harvest between October and December, they get 40 gallons of extra virgin olive oil. They also have a wonderful restaurant attached to the mill and gift shop where you can buy their oils - You have to pay the high prices for the good stuff. The Arizona climate is great for growing olives and no pesticides are needed because the temperatures of over 100 degrees here in the summer kill the olive fly that plaques crops in Italy, Spain and Greece. Olive trees produce olives in 3 to 5 years and can live for hundreds of years.

Just to let you know the peach and pear trees are blooming here now and the harvest happens in May.

On Saturday Lynn and I went to the O'Odham Tash Indian Days Parade in Casa Grande. Casa Grande has several large Indian Reservations in its surrounding area and it hosts one of the largest Indian Festivals in USA. The Festival has a rodeo, carnival, arts and crafts market and a parade that all take place this weekend. Lynn and Tom have lived in Casa Grande for almost 6 years now and this was the first time Lynn has gone to the parade and since it wasn't too thrilling and very slow paced - it will probably be the last.

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