Olive oil is well known for its flavor and health benefits but the leaf has been used medicinally as well. Since we have so many organic leaves on Finca La Capellania during the harvest, I thought I’d search around the web to see what I can learn and I found the following on wikipedia.org: A liquid extract made directly from […]
Olive Oil Production Diego is the estate boss and he takes care of the milling capacity and schedules the process so that the olives don’t have to wait around after being harvested. He waits for the buckets of olives to arrive the at the mill. I try not to get in his way too much when I am there so […]
When is it best to harvest olives? These arbequina olives are in the veraison stage and are at their optimum ripeness for picking. It is at this stage we harvest our olives at Finca La Capellania. The resulting olive oil at this point if all else is goes well, is simply the best you’ll ever get. The oil generally has […]
Well, there are different ways to harvest olives. On Finca La Capellania, we do it mainly by hand and electric fingers. The electric fingers is a device that whips the olives off the branches onto a net placed around the tree. It’s what the guys in the picture on the left are using. You can find more about this topic […]