How awesome was that, Niluka and Gerd!
Amazing olive harvesting 'fork' you have, making quick and easy work of the huge task.
You truly had a beautiful and bountiful olive yield and the reward of receiving so much olive oil in return must've been awesome.
Well done!
Had a good giggle at Christine…trying her hand at olive picking.
Probably some 'in-house' training for her own olive harvest soon😊
Another interesting machine you acquired to separate the olives and leaves.
Strange how one can make almost anything fit into a car …. If you work with a plan😁
Great moves there by the ladies filling the olive separating machine😃
Now you know what to do for a good gym workout, Niluka👍
Loved the aerial views showing up the very pretty silver olive trees.
All the best!

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Love the olive leaf blowing dance x

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Great first harvest! Thanks for taking us along!

good job well done.👍

It was a real pleasure helping, not that we did that much, we are really impressed with your bounty, see you again soon…Clementina & John.

Great filming guy's,loved it! Wish I was there!☺☺

We also just completed our first harvest (we live in central Italy) and ended up with about 230kgs as well, between 25 and 30l of oil. Good that you seemed to have waited a bit to harvest, most people get impatient (especially that first time) and seem to harvest early and get low yield. Quick question, what made you decide to buy the machine to remove the leaves? The mills have equipment for that so I'm guessing cleaning the olives is part of the service they provide.

A few things I learned this year, they might be helpful for you or your viewers:
1. you need large nets if you use one of those mechanical harvesters. Also, they are heavy especially if the motor isn't built into the handle.
2. it saves quite a bit of time to just drag nets from one tree to the next without putting the olives in a bin/wheelbarrow each time.
3. Getting some crates is really helpful, we bought 4 for about 6 euros each which each hold about 20kgs so it's a manageable amount for most people harvesting. Additionally we found the hand held rakes or similar rakes on a wooden pole quite helpful for harder to reach areas.
4. it takes a long time to harvest so plan accordingly, best not to leave olives sitting for more than a few days before pressing. We helped a friend and were forced to do 40 trees in a day. Even with a group of 5-6 fit harvesters it's a big challenge as the days get shorter this time of year.
5. We are very fortunate our neighbor has his own mill (the type you showed as part of the b-roll, with the big round stones that rotate) so we weren't subject to the weight limits by the mill. It also meant we didn't have to settle for oil from other people's olives. We don't use chemicals of any kind and you just never know what others use.
6. Hard pruning doesn't need to happen every year so I will probably shift to every 2 years and split my trees in half so I have abundant harvests for at least half my trees each year.

Hi guys you certainly have your work cut out with all the olive trees to harvest farm work suits you you look more healthy,Christine was a laugh getting bombed by olives.😂

Your olives are nicely ripe and the eating ones are ginormous. You're both looking fit from all the work on your farm. Nice of your friends to come help. Thanks for bringing us along with you to the lugar.

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Did you taste the olive oil? How many kg olives you managed to harvest? Nice first experience, it looked quite professional !

Congrats on your first olive harvest and own olive oil . Enjoy!

Good stuff guys, think of building up your own olive oil mill, it's not of a big job but good investment for the future to serve nearby farmers.