Lots of tidying up today; we cleared all the stuff out of
the camper that we don’t need to take home, and stored it in the bedroom shed –
the camper looks very bleak.
The olives are due to be harvested 2nd/3rd
week in November, which means we’ll miss it, so unfortunately we won’t be
making oil this year; but we did harvest some for brining/curing to eat. They
are picked (actually they are ‘combed’ off the tree), and then put into very
strong brine (enough salt to float an egg), left for several months, then
soaked in water to get rid of the salty taste. We have so many olives it seems
such a waste to just leave them on the trees, but this year we have no choice.
We have severalof different types of olives, all sizes and colours - they look like beads
It took less than 1/2 hour to pick a bucket of olives, as we have over 200 trees we're thinking of getting help for next years harvest - volunteers please!
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