Olive oil

Harvesting Olives 7 - Bottling the olive oil

After about three hours the oil eventually makes its way to large tanks where gravity helps filter the sediment. The oil is then poured...

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Harvesting Olives 6 - Oil quality and centrifugation

We've popped into the office to check the paperwork and then we're off for a coffee while the olives get churned. . People often ask...

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Harvesting Olives 5 - Grinding the olives

The first step in making the oil is to crush the fruit. This is what used to be called 'pressed'. Once the fruits have been crushed, the...

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Harvesting Olives 4 - Off to the mill

As we harvest the olives, we place them in crates which we load up onto our Ford truck. Once we have a full load, we take the olives to...

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Harvesting Olives 3 - The tools we use

Unlike the magnificently large olive farms around Jaen, Seville and Cordoba which use a fleet of tractors with pincers to shake entire...

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Harvesting Olives 2 - The Nets

First off, we place nets on the ground to catch the fruit as it falls. It's difficult to see from the photos, but there's actually a net...

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Olive Oil Harvest - Part 1

Let's start with a bit of background info. The olive tree (Olea europaea) is an evergreen tree that belongs to the genus Olea. The oldest...

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Processing this year's olive crop

Gone are the days when olive oil was made by a donkey pulling stones around and around to grind the olives. Today, olive oil sold...

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The olive harvest has begun!

Over the next few days we will pick all the green and black olives off the trees by hitting and shaking the branches until the fruit...

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