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Picking olives is not for the faint-of-heart... or sensitive of hands! Whereas table olives (Sevillano, mostly, in our region) are picked in September and October, we pick our Mission Olives as late as possible to get the added mellow-ness that additional time on the tree brings.
Picking olives is not for the faint-of-heart... or sensitive of hands! Whereas table olives (Sevillano, mostly, in our region) are picked in September and October, we pick our Mission Olives as late as possible to get the added mellow-ness that additional time on the tree brings.
Happy we're done!
The olive harvest is challenging physically, and the stress of finding a mill that will take our "boutique" sized harvest for milling, as late as we'd like to do it, is ALWAYS a challenge. So we're ALWAYS glad we're done!
Olive Harvest
We pick our olives later in their maturity for two reasons: 1) the longer they're on the tree (to a point!) the more oil we get from them, and 2) we much prefer the more mellow flavours that come from purple-er olives, rather than the somewhat ascerbic (burn in the back of your throat) flavour profile that is more hip, now, with some of the larger growers.
Bartlett Pears
We are so pleased, every year, when the pears are ready, not the least because that means that cooler days are upon us!
