15/10/2026
Have you ever wondered why superior quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil is so expensive???
We comb the olives out of the trees using hand rakes onto nets. Then we scoop those olives up into crates and get them milled within a day of picking.
The milling process takes a couple of hours, and the extra virgin olive oil is ready!
Easy, right?
Our goal is that each of our trees gives us one 20kg crate of olives and that those olives yield between 10 and 15% oil, or around 2 to 3kg of extra virgin olive oil.
It takes two of us around 30 to 45 minutes to rake each tree.
Then, of course, there's been a year of caring for that tree.
Pruning, tending the grove, diesel for the tractor, administration (and oh, how the EU loves administration!) oversight by the organic certification body, etc, etc, etc.
This is the price of superior quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
It's a good job that we love making it so much!
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