My grandparents and I did our olive harvest last week. It was my first time, and what an enjoyable experience it was. The gentleman that ran the oil production site was kind enough to give me a tour and explain how it all works.
Wait, they just fall off?
🤞🏻
Good luck, fratello. So far this seems like a good year!
I’ve never seen anything like this before. Beautiful.
here in Portugal we are having a record harvest
My parents and I finished ours today. Good luck.
We’re doing it after All Saint’s Day. Looks like it’s going to be a good year!
Happy harvest from Albania , we are packing and coming to Italy and Greece for the harvest , best time of the year .
I fucking hate olive harvesting. It’s usually so cold, humid, and you end up fucking up your hands in the branches.
I know you can use the sticks, but if your family is stingy like mine was, they want every goddamn olive out of the 4 or 5 trees. Thank god we sold them.
I do miss the fresh olive oil, though. Fuck that’s good.
You too! I finished with my harvest yesterday.
The way this climate change thing is going, in a few years I think we might join your harvest.
Meanwhile on my island in Greece we just finished with the grape harvesting. Olive harvest won’t start till mid of December.
It’s cool and all but so much hardwork, separating the olives from the leaves beating the tree so the olives fall. I used to hate it as a kid, but looking back it was cool to do it with my father and grandfather. Now we use some more advanced tools. However this year I think it will be delayed a bit, it’s still too hot.
Yep! My family will be doing this soon in Greece (Peloponnese).
My favourite time of the year. The smell of fresh harvested olives and then the smell in the mill are unforgettable.
Enjoy.
Bought locally made extra virgin olive oil when on vacation in Greece this summer, man this stuff is addictive, doesn’t compare to anything bought in the store here.
Mine will begin on the 20th of November!
Man I need to buy one those big ass net they make the job much easier
Man I loved doing that with my grandparents when I was a kid 😢
A really bad year for olives here, the harvest is barely 1/10 of what it should be. We had one of the coldest springs on record and it kind of ruined the growth of them
Much love from Mediterranean Turkiye
In which region is this? Is it at all affected by that olive tree disease that is rampaging in the south (I believe its called xylella)? I drove through Puglia two years ago and it was scary to see. Hope everything is fine over there!
Have a nice harvest! I usually harvest too at this period (Northern Tuscany) but the cold weather at May froze away all the blooms… so no olives /oil this year for me…
Do you shake the trees to harvest? Genuinely curious as I’ve never seen olives harvested before.
Thnx my friend!! Love from Tunisia
Thank you, love, Spain
I lived on a Greek Island. American with 2 Masters Degrees here. Married a Greek farmer. Young. Illiterate pretty much. His aunt, a spinster, inherited vast parcels of land. 13 kids and shes only survivor. For several days we went to her orchards to pick olives. There were plastic nets under the trees but rain had brought clover that sprouted through the nets and crowded the fallen olives. I had a plastic stool to sit on. Separating olives from clover was time consuming. Thea (Aunt) Marina bent over in her black dress. She gathered many kilos to my one. But the air was cool and clear. I was so happy with the work. Just across the valley I heard a baby goat call for its mother. My husband gathered the large bags of olives, hoisted them onto his donkey’s saddle side sacks and walked to the next village where the olives were dumped, processed, and oil poured into plastic water bottles.
I’m from England,and it’s too cold to grow olives up here,but I hope your harvests are plentiful down there,I guess…
Have a good harvest my friend! 🇹🇷
Thanks med bro appreciate it
Is the ground net for collected the olive ?
The comments here are so wholesome!
Everybody just geeking out about olive harvesting, with so much fraternity.
My parents own land that has some some olives trees in Spain, it was a good year apparently.
Olive harvest is my favourite, at this part of the year the sun does not try to kill you 🙂
Harvested olives today in central California! Made it into the best olive oil I have ever tasted. Hope your harvest went just as well!
You guys only started harvesting? We already had snow here
Damn sometimes I really want to move to the south just for the warmth 🙁
Good luck harvesting from the Netherlands. We very much enjoy the produce. And appreciate the effort.
I was at the island of Corfu almsot 2 months ago for our vacation. The whole island has so many olive trees, walking many kms on the small roads in the middle of the island, far from the touristy areas, was like discovering hidden treasure.
We were done last week with ours. Wish you a good harvest OP
Thanks for the Olive Oil I’m using all year long bro !
I love these kind of posts on r/europe 🥰
So wholesome
My (Spanish) Dad gets angry at Italy because “They buy our olives and then sell them in Italian packaging!!!” First of all, good on Italians for being good at marketing food products using their reputation for quality food, secondly Italy is awesome and fuck my Dad’s nationalist bullshit, this is one world. Lastly, Dear Dad: “Hate the player, not the game!!!!!”
We used to do that in Afrin (Aleppo, Syria), but since 2018 the area has been occupied by Turkey and jihadis. My parents are not allowed to harvest. The jihadis steal the harvest every year 🙁
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My grandparents and I did our olive harvest last week. It was my first time, and what an enjoyable experience it was. The gentleman that ran the oil production site was kind enough to give me a tour and explain how it all works.
Wait, they just fall off?
🤞🏻
Good luck, fratello. So far this seems like a good year!
I’ve never seen anything like this before. Beautiful.
here in Portugal we are having a record harvest
My parents and I finished ours today. Good luck.
We’re doing it after All Saint’s Day. Looks like it’s going to be a good year!
Happy harvest from Albania , we are packing and coming to Italy and Greece for the harvest , best time of the year .
I fucking hate olive harvesting. It’s usually so cold, humid, and you end up fucking up your hands in the branches.
I know you can use the sticks, but if your family is stingy like mine was, they want every goddamn olive out of the 4 or 5 trees. Thank god we sold them.
I do miss the fresh olive oil, though. Fuck that’s good.
You too! I finished with my harvest yesterday.
The way this climate change thing is going, in a few years I think we might join your harvest.
Meanwhile on my island in Greece we just finished with the grape harvesting. Olive harvest won’t start till mid of December.
It’s cool and all but so much hardwork, separating the olives from the leaves beating the tree so the olives fall. I used to hate it as a kid, but looking back it was cool to do it with my father and grandfather. Now we use some more advanced tools. However this year I think it will be delayed a bit, it’s still too hot.
Yep! My family will be doing this soon in Greece (Peloponnese).
My favourite time of the year. The smell of fresh harvested olives and then the smell in the mill are unforgettable.
Enjoy.
Bought locally made extra virgin olive oil when on vacation in Greece this summer, man this stuff is addictive, doesn’t compare to anything bought in the store here.
Mine will begin on the 20th of November!
Man I need to buy one those big ass net they make the job much easier
Man I loved doing that with my grandparents when I was a kid 😢
A really bad year for olives here, the harvest is barely 1/10 of what it should be. We had one of the coldest springs on record and it kind of ruined the growth of them
Much love from Mediterranean Turkiye
In which region is this? Is it at all affected by that olive tree disease that is rampaging in the south (I believe its called xylella)? I drove through Puglia two years ago and it was scary to see. Hope everything is fine over there!
Have a nice harvest! I usually harvest too at this period (Northern Tuscany) but the cold weather at May froze away all the blooms… so no olives /oil this year for me…
Do you shake the trees to harvest? Genuinely curious as I’ve never seen olives harvested before.
Thnx my friend!! Love from Tunisia
Thank you, love, Spain
I lived on a Greek Island. American with 2 Masters Degrees here. Married a Greek farmer. Young. Illiterate pretty much. His aunt, a spinster, inherited vast parcels of land. 13 kids and shes only survivor. For several days we went to her orchards to pick olives. There were plastic nets under the trees but rain had brought clover that sprouted through the nets and crowded the fallen olives. I had a plastic stool to sit on. Separating olives from clover was time consuming. Thea (Aunt) Marina bent over in her black dress. She gathered many kilos to my one. But the air was cool and clear. I was so happy with the work. Just across the valley I heard a baby goat call for its mother. My husband gathered the large bags of olives, hoisted them onto his donkey’s saddle side sacks and walked to the next village where the olives were dumped, processed, and oil poured into plastic water bottles.
I’m from England,and it’s too cold to grow olives up here,but I hope your harvests are plentiful down there,I guess…
Have a good harvest my friend! 🇹🇷
Thanks med bro appreciate it
Is the ground net for collected the olive ?
The comments here are so wholesome!
Everybody just geeking out about olive harvesting, with so much fraternity.
My parents own land that has some some olives trees in Spain, it was a good year apparently.
Olive harvest is my favourite, at this part of the year the sun does not try to kill you 🙂
Harvested olives today in central California! Made it into the best olive oil I have ever tasted. Hope your harvest went just as well!
You guys only started harvesting? We already had snow here
Damn sometimes I really want to move to the south just for the warmth 🙁
Good luck harvesting from the Netherlands. We very much enjoy the produce. And appreciate the effort.
I was at the island of Corfu almsot 2 months ago for our vacation. The whole island has so many olive trees, walking many kms on the small roads in the middle of the island, far from the touristy areas, was like discovering hidden treasure.
We were done last week with ours. Wish you a good harvest OP
Thanks for the Olive Oil I’m using all year long bro !
I love these kind of posts on r/europe 🥰
So wholesome
My (Spanish) Dad gets angry at Italy because “They buy our olives and then sell them in Italian packaging!!!” First of all, good on Italians for being good at marketing food products using their reputation for quality food, secondly Italy is awesome and fuck my Dad’s nationalist bullshit, this is one world. Lastly, Dear Dad: “Hate the player, not the game!!!!!”
We used to do that in Afrin (Aleppo, Syria), but since 2018 the area has been occupied by Turkey and jihadis. My parents are not allowed to harvest. The jihadis steal the harvest every year 🙁
I hate this job, but it’s so worth it