Tag Archives: olives
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Making the most of it
8Thursday 03 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
When the mountains are as rock strewn as we have here in the southwest of Türkiye, there is little one …
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Olives Trees ‘Off Season’
8Thursday 10 September, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Olive trees tend to produce a crop every two years, more or less. Some trees are a bit weird, producing …
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Olive
2Wednesday 05 August, 2015 by Uncle Spike
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Olive Tree Regeneration
13Sunday 08 March, 2015 by Uncle Spike
Olive trees need a particular style of care which is altogether different to the fruit trees we have on the …
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Not as tasty as it looked?
18Thursday 26 February, 2015 by Uncle Spike
The latest ‘Guess What‘ had this image… . Some brilliant suggestions this time around 🙂 – a slice of raw beef …
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Olive Oil Harvesting – How Much?
15Monday 22 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
So, we have now covered the end to end process, from olive growing through to oil production. But how much …
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Olive Oil Harvesting – One Year
15Saturday 20 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In the preceding four part series, we looked at, preparing for, harvesting and processing olives to make our olive oil. But what was the …
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Olive Oil Harvesting – Factory Time
20Tuesday 16 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In part one of this post, we looked at the harvest season and preparing to pick. In part two there …
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Olive Oil Harvesting – Off to the factory
22Sunday 14 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In part one of this post, we looked at the harvest season and preparing to pick. In part two there …
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Cheating Death While Olive Picking
10Tuesday 09 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Olive trees grow in the weirdest of places, and seem quite happy on the sides of mountains, steep inclines, as …
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Olive Oil Harvesting – Picking
19Saturday 06 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In part one of this post, we looked at the harvest season and preparing to pick olives for oil production. …
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Table Olives – Salt Cured (part 2)
6Thursday 04 December, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In a previous post, we got as far as preparing table olives by layering them with salt in a large tub …
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Table Olives – Salt Cured (part 1)
11Saturday 29 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In some previous posts, we looked at how olives for table use are cured using water, salted, and then preserved in …
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Table Olives – Water Cured (part 2)
11Tuesday 25 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In a previous post, we got as far as preparing table olives by soaking them in water. Now we continue the …
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Table Olives – Water Cured (part 1)
6Saturday 22 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
In a previous post, we looked at how olives for table use, rather than oil production, are picked, sorted and prepared. …
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Olive Oil Harvesting – Preparation
7Friday 21 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
2014 has been an average year for our olive harvest. This year was a ‘harvest’ year in terms of yield, …
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Table Olives – Picking & Sorting
19Sunday 16 November, 2014 by Uncle Spike
. Picking olives for oil production is one thing, but for table olives, that is, the ones you want to …
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Handful of Autumn Fruit #3
10Saturday 04 October, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Late September, early October, and the winter fruit season is marching ever closer, whilst some other summer fruits are still …
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Olives: A New Season
15Thursday 15 May, 2014 by Uncle Spike
The olive trees are all in flower, marking the beginning of a new season. . After a short couple of …
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A Tree Reborn
7Tuesday 01 April, 2014 by Uncle Spike
I don’t use chemical insecticides or fungicides unless absolutely necessary. We therefore get much much less in the way of produce on the farm, but we …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition (II)
6Saturday 25 January, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Clan Spike’s second entry for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is the meeting of two opposite worlds in our house; …
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And Spikey Is Back…..
3Wednesday 20 November, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Last Thursday afternoon we had a good old storm roll in, fast and furious it was. That’s all pretty normal …
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Son of a Farming Nerd
2Sunday 27 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
Our house is also a farm, so as much as we are all techie techie, there is also an earthy …
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Almost Olive Time…!
17Monday 14 October, 2013 by Uncle Spike
From the back end of October till the end of December, much of my time is spent picking olives, sorting …
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