Our harvest began early this year: on October 19th, Gabriele and Joachim Porschke arrived by plane via Pisa, and just two days later, they were together with their harvest helpers in the olive grove.
It was a sunny start to the harvest! The dried grass of the past months had been mowed two weeks earlier. Now the fresh green of the regrowing blades dominated the campus. Ideal conditions to lay out the large harvest nets. Armed with long-handled rakes, the eagerly awaited harvesting of the fruits from the up to 4-meter-high trees began. It promised to be a bountiful harvest. In some places, no leaves could be seen between the clusters of olives.
If it hadn’t been for Corona… an absolute record harvest would have been achieved. The unpredictable travel restrictions and quarantine regulations this autumn prevented half of the firmly planned helpers from arriving! It was bitter for all involved… but at the end of the 10-day harvest, only about 50% of all the trees on the campus had been harvested. Consoling was the quality of the oil, which was carried home from the oil mill evening after evening!
A limited number of half-liter bottles and one-liter cans are now available for purchase:
€16.50 per bottle, €29.- per can!
Please order at: j.porschke@uliveto.de
