ADOLIVE, THE FIELD OF THE FLOWERY MEADOWS
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The Domaine des Prés Fleuris in L'Escarène organizes evenings dedicated to jazz and reading under the olive trees in the summer.
"It's an inspiring tree. You feel small next to it". Jacqueline Bellino has found serenity among her olive trees, 400 trees of the cailletier variety, 150 of which are a hundred years old and one, a thousand years old, which reaches a circumference of 7 m (her favourite). It was in the 1970s that the woman from Nice aspired to return to the land. Exiled to the hills, 20 km from the capital of the Côte d'Azur, she started growing olives and was one of the first in the department to choose organic farming, even if it meant "looking like a madwoman". Cultivated without irrigation ("for a greater concentration of polynephols"), the olive trees go down from terrace to terrace and are surrounded by daisies, poppies or wild grass depending on the season. Hence the name of the "Prés Fleuris" estate," smiles Jacqueline Bellino, who finds in this rural setting a perpetual source of inspiration: she has already published several books and collections of poems with the mythical tree as a common thread... "Olive growing is a physical job but one that allows time to meditate. A vocation for this grandmother of 12 grandchildren whose life seems to be guided by the chance of her encounters around the olive tree. "This tree is a link between people", she continues. She welcomes guests to her estate with her husband Gilles Gallois, and in the summer months she organises evenings devoted to jazz and reading under the olive trees...
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