An olive harvest: Pressing of the olives
8. Sunday Today is our last harvesting day. It seems as if it was only yesterday when we started the bone breaking job.…
Category: Olive world
An olive harvest: Oil for skin care
7. Sunday The end is in sight. Today the olive grove owner’s sister has offered us her help. I suppose she knew…
An olive harvest: Mediterranean diet
6. Sunday Supporters are coming to give us a hand. That’s good, because at a certain point I started to doubt that…
An olive harvest: Table olives
5. Sunday I realise I’m not alone. Last Sunday a dewy spider web drew my attention, and its grace and splendour sincerely impressed…
An olive harvest: Olive oil tasting
4. Sunday Fortune is on our side. It is raining and no olives can be harvested. Of course, we are not lucky…
An olive harvest: Olive oil qualities
3. Sunday Today’s pickers are the same as last Sunday, the youngest is five years old, the oldest seventy or over. We…
An olive harvest: History of the olive
2. Sunday A week has passed and I have recovered from last Sunday’s hard work. At least that’s what I thought but when…
An olive harvest: Plant description
1. Domenica Early in November is usually the beginning of the olive crop season and if it does not rain, we shall…
Athena’s gift… olives
In the end humanity did not have a bad start. Following the Greek mythology, in fact, three benevolent deities made highly valuable…
