Clever title right!? Especially since yesterday we devoted a large part of our day to OLIVE PICKING! Since Fall semester is the only time that the olives are ready to pick during the year, fall semester at the Jerusalem Center is the only semester that gets to pick and harvest the olives so we can turn them into olive oil. The JC is a large property on Mount Scopus and it overlooks the Mount of Olives and the Old City down below. The location is beautiful and it wouldn't be complete without all of the olive trees that cover the gardens and terraces. I have one on my balcony and that is where I began picking the olives. The JC also has many olive presses that are like the ones in ancient times. We will be using them to press our own olives! Olive my LIFE!
Day 2:
A week after the initial picking of the olives, we pressed them! It included soaking the olives in brine for a week and then crushing them with a large rolling stone, putting the olive paste in ancient style wicker baskets, and then pressing the oil from the paste. It was a beautiful day to be outside pressing olives for oil in the gardens of the Jerusalem Center.
No comments:
Post a Comment