The olive harvest and the oil!

The olive harvest and the oil!

Mery Barrasso

The olive harvest and the oil!

It is a very important and delicate work of the olive harvest that allows us to obtain an extra virgin olive oil of excellent quality, we can not go wrong the appropriate method and we must choose the right period that varies each year. The method for manual harvesting is called burning, before it was carried out by hand going up long stairs, now instead we use electrical machinery that allow a saving of time and effort , a comb that fall the olives to the ground on nets and then are collected in baskets. The shaking instead is a...

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