There was a mixture of excitement and terror on Neil Davy’s face as he rolled the tiny olive around in his hand. And who could blame him? For this was no ordinary olive. It was an olive from the first harvest ever grown commercially in Britain. And 42-year-old Neil, a management consultant who grew the olives on a plot of land outside his kitchen window, was about to step into the history books. Inspired: Neil and Louise Davy (pictured with their daughters Kailas, 7, and Teagan, 4) have opened the UK's first olive farm after falling in love with the idea during their honeymoon on the Amalfi Coast in Italy in 2002
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Neil Davy and his wife Louise have opened the first olive farm in the UK
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They built farm in their four-acre back garden on the Isle of Oxney in Kent
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Couple fell in love with idea of owning olive farm during honeymoon in Amalfi
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They bought 200 trees from Italian suppliers as English were too expensive
In March 2012, he found a traditional family-run nursery in northern @placeholder that seemed perfect