Fall Colors At San Miguel Olive Farm

We live and work in such a beautiful area! This is a picture of some of our newly planted olive trees. They have been charted, and the ground has been tilled.

The owls are enjoying overseeing their territory. If only we understood owl talk! They love to gossip as darkness takes over.

What would we do without our faithful tractor and faithful driver! Many hours have been spent making the land good for our trees.

Excitement is high at San Miguel Olive Farm! We will be harvesting our 2011 crop on December First!  The weather is expected to be cold and crisp.

If you look closely, you can see some of the trees with an orange tag. These are the trees bearing olives. Due to weather, and the fact that olives are an alternate bearing tree, many growers have a diminished crop this year.

......thank you, Todd, for the beautiful pictures.
We will return soon.

A Day At The Farm

Yesterday was a beautiful day to play a little catch up! When we had the field "ripped", earlier this year, we had most of the coyote brush hauled away. Now we are gradually raking up the last of it, and taking it to the green area, at the dump. You can see the new trees in the background. All are doing well.

We had some rain a few days ago, which has made it much easier for pulling weeds from around the newer trees. As the trees get larger, the canopy provides shade, which discourages the weeds. Eventually weeding around the trees will be a minor part of our labor! Won't that be nice!!!

We picked a few olives to check for taste and oil content. The olives varied in size and color.

It's important to taste the olives as we approach harvest. We also check the inside and outside color.
All this helps us determine when to harvest our crop.

Gotta scoot...new day, more to do, back soon.