Its total land area consists of 4,740 dunams of which nearly a 1/4 is covered with olive orchards.
Orchards were started at other missions but in 1838 an inspection found only two olive orchard in California.
The lower slopes of the Montalcino hill itself are dominated by highly productive vines and olive orchards.
From the walls the vineyards & olive orchards of the estate slant away toward the valley.
The narrow valley wound through a region of tumbled low hills, mostly covered in olive orchards.
Another 144 hectares (360 acres) are olive orchards with 176,000 olive trees.
The kind who own their own olive orchards and industrious chickens, I guess.
Today most of the mountain is a quiet host to olive orchards and small herds of domestic livestock.
However, the north terrace was recently bulldozed for a new olive orchard, and the archaeological remains have thus been seriously disturbed.
It's always the same: I seem to be in an olive orchard.
