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

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 abou...

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 ...

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 t...

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

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 ...

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...

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 commerc...

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 fall...