Thursday, December 2, 2010

Olives



This year we had a much better crop of olives. The recently-planted tree—a manzanillo, I believe—never produced much fruit in the past few years, but starting in the summer a number of small olives began to be visible. We started to spot more and more as they ripened and slowly changed color.

I harvested as many olives as I could reach last month (November) and started brining them in a saltwater solution.

We'll see.

Photos: Olives on Tree—Marin County, 2010; Harvested Olives—Marin County, 2010

4 comments:

judit said...

Love the picture of the olives on the tree, and what a great project! Yummmmm.

Mike Mundy said...

Thanks! Looks like it's going to be a long drawn-out project.

judit said...

What's the plan?

Mike Mundy said...

Olives are now in a salt brine in the garage. I've been changing the brine on a weekly basis; they're still incredibly bitter.

Looks like it's going to be a long drawn-out project.