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 […]
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 […]