Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Olive Picking
Yesterday we went to pick olives at our friend's dad's olive grove. They have 120 trees. Yesterday we picked 14 trees worth of olives and that's about 220 kilos. It's fun because you don't do it with your hands you do it with small rakes and you can climb up the center of the tree. I attached a stick to the end of my rake so I could reach olives that were above me. Some of the trees don't have a lot of olives but others have heaps. Before you start a tree you have to spread a net out underneath the tree for the olives to fall on and if the tree is on a slope you have to put sticks on one side so the olives don't roll off the net. We have some trees at our house. We harvested them then we gave our olives to our friends to bring to the mill. We only had 23 kilos so we got 5liters of olive oil. On Saturday we will go and see the olives we picked yesterday getting pressed at the mill.
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2 comments:
Wow - what a good idea to use a rake - I really thought one had to pick them by hand. How does your olive oil taste? Does one flavour olive oil in Italy - or go for the natural flavour? Man I wish I was still there to experience all these awesome things you are experiencing!!
Treasure the moments.
Could do with some of that olive oil here,Mathew. I am sure it tastes very good, have you dipped bread into it?
Wonder if Ana tried to climb the tree with you.
I also thought olives were picked by using your hands.
We have learned a lot from your blog site--so thank you.
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