Ever Harvest Olives before? I recommend it.
So I am currently traveling around Sicily, and recently I was in Siracusa. Absolutely beautiful by the way, highly recommended. While in Siracusa through someone who knew someone who knew someone I met some people that rock-climb. I went climbing with them one day, and they are all really good. Their warm-up is what I aspire to. Anyway I had the pleasure of hanging out with them a bit while in town. Tomasso, one of the climbers is a farmer. He invited some people over to his place to harvest olives and eat together. It really was a beautiful day.
Meet Tomasso, the man in-charge... i guess.
So for those of you who don't know how olive harvesting works, you basically comb the tree. You use what possibly can be described as a hand rake to brush the branches of the tree as if it was hair, and the olives fall to the ground. Placed upon the ground is a giant net to collect all of the olives. Follow the pictures to get a better idea of what I am talking about.
Vai Federeica!
To reach the olives that are high up we used a combination of tree climbing, ladders, and these hand-rakes attached to sticks.
Luigi. Of course the rock-climbers are going to climb the trees to get to the olives.
Tomasso's Grandma helping out. She said she had to pick two olives this way she can claim she picked olives (plural) not just one.
At this point we are removing the larger pieces of litter, like small branches that fell in with the olives.
and into the crates they go
By the time you are reading this, these will probably be delicious olive oil!
The beautiful property.
Pruning some branches.
It is a smiley face! Do you see it?
Getting ready to eat our delicious lunch.
Buon Pranzo! E` stato un piacere a conoscervi. Grazie tanto per l'ospitalita`.
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