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Geoff Crawford
Do I Need To Wash My Olives

Do I Need To Wash My Olives

Yes, no , wait, maybe yes wash those olives, but when? how much washing? When googling a recipe for how to cure olives you can get a thousand different best ways, all profess to be THE way to cure olives... but really? are they all right? and do they all work? The answer is simple, yes they are all correct processing techniques, and they all do work, but what you really need to know is: what one is going to work for me? Do you want to prick or slice each olive before curing, do you want to change the water...

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Why Assess Olive Size

Why Assess Olive Size

Every year throughout the growing season we regularly measure the growth of the olives. This is done by.....

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When Do I Pick My Olives

When Do I Pick My Olives

I'll attempt to summarise the process into a decision making points.  You will then be in control of when to pick your olives!

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Olive Harvest 2020 begins

This year at Telegraph Hill we began our hand harvest of these greens under Level 3 COVID-19. I didn't/couldn't imagine that 48 hours later we'd be working through a Level 4 home lock down for the next four weeks (the majority of harvest). Anyway it was a beautiful day for hand harvesting, no wind, slight cloud cover and warm temperatures.  The variety of these is Uovo D'Piccione (Egg of a Pidgeon) as the name suggests a big green olive. These trees are all based at the Olivery.  There are only three trees, so these are just sold locally to restaurants. ...

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