most ripen to deep purpleusually the smaller olives are used for the olive oilCeglie, olive harvesting – one common method is to place nets under and around the trees…and use hands, hand tools or machines to drop the olivescollect them into crates and transport them to a press and into giant cratesmove them to a scale to weightwo-crates worth: 488 kg including the big cratesput into a large panpulled up into a machine to separate the olives from the leaves, and to wash the oliveschop and churn, olives and seeds separate the churned olives from the seeds using centrifuges separate water from olive oil using higher revolution centrifuges high quality extra virgin olive oil, single source… bright green but will darken within a dayway back, before we turned machines and metal, it was hands and stoneand time did the separation
