It's that time of year again and this year we are ready for it. We have about 20 olive trees on our land and this year quite a few of them have a reasonable crop. The farmers use a device on their tractor which grabs the tree and vibrates it shaking the olives into a large inverted umbrella.
We however, are using the more traditional method of hitting the branches of the tree with a long stick and then collecting the olives on one of the two large nets which are laid either side of the tree.
Margaret then sorted out the leaves - however, at the "olive co-operative" in the village they have tumbling machines which do the same thing.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Collecting olives!
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