How is Bramasole Olive Oil Made

Please enjoy the following photographs, which give you a feel for how we harvest and press the oil.

Working our way up



Pierino on a ladder



Cases of picked olives ready to go to the mill



Picking out leaves



Pierino



Our olives at the beginning of the process



The oil



Everybody working



The Crew



Armando with basket



Spreading the net, with Bramasole on the left
A net loaded with olives



Ed reaching for another branch



Sticks to help the net catch cascading olives



Another case of olives for Anne, her husband Paul, and Pierino



Beppe at the mill with 400 kilos of olives



Washing olives



Ed's sisters, Anne and Mary Jo, hauling another 25 kilos of olives



Armando on left, Albano, Anne and Paul



Beppe's Ape, loaded with crates and ladders



Trees surrounded by net



Beppe, Albano, Armando, Pierino

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