Post by kostas on Dec 1, 2013 11:41:32 GMT 1
Hello fellas,
I was out at our family Olive oil trees this weekend, we had to collect the olives to make our our olive oil.
If you have not seen how this is done here are some pictures:
First you have to spread big sheets of canvas under the trees and then brush the olives off the trees, then pick up the canvas clean the olives from leafs and put into big 50 kilo bags
Here are the trees
We had company at some point:
Then off to the crusher
It goes thru various stages: washing, crushing, heating, then thru three stages of centrifugal cleaning and fresh oil runs from a tap at the end of the line
we collected only half the field we own as the weather spoiled our plans.
So we picked up 2.367.900 kilos of olives
and made 467 kilos oil extra virgin, completely chemical free olive oil!!
It is hard work but we can't live without it.
Cheers
Kostas
I was out at our family Olive oil trees this weekend, we had to collect the olives to make our our olive oil.
If you have not seen how this is done here are some pictures:
First you have to spread big sheets of canvas under the trees and then brush the olives off the trees, then pick up the canvas clean the olives from leafs and put into big 50 kilo bags
Here are the trees
We had company at some point:
Then off to the crusher
It goes thru various stages: washing, crushing, heating, then thru three stages of centrifugal cleaning and fresh oil runs from a tap at the end of the line
we collected only half the field we own as the weather spoiled our plans.
So we picked up 2.367.900 kilos of olives
and made 467 kilos oil extra virgin, completely chemical free olive oil!!
It is hard work but we can't live without it.
Cheers
Kostas
