{"id":4166,"date":"2024-04-21T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2024-04-21T16:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:26:51","slug":"the-start-of-the-olive-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/2024\/04\/21\/the-start-of-the-olive-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"The start of the Olive Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of year again here on the farm. Time to harvest the olives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, starting around the end of February, we begin planning, worrying, and preparing for the olive harvest. You’d think, given that we do it every year, we’d be relaxed about the whole thing. No. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year is different. Not only do we tweak how we do the harvest by trying to maintain what worked well the year before while trying to fix what didn’t work well, but how many olives we harvest varies wildly from year to year, as does start date. It’s all one big complicated, constantly changing plan. Which we are putting together and trying to implement while simultaneously keeping the rest of the farm running. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to weather, some risky decisions we made last year, and pure chance, we started the harvest this past week with the farm in the best shape it has ever been. The grass in the plantation is cut, the files are clear of weeds, we have all the livestock rotated out, the front fields have been planted with fall crops, the garden is stable, we already harvested the chickens; we are in fabulous shape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are also only harvesting the Picual this year. There are no – I repeat no – olives in the Arbequina. None. We are not unique in this, the spring weather was bad for fruit set and many olive plantations have very little or no olives to harvest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, after a rainy start to last week, we started to harvest on Wednesday. The shortest trees on farm are in the lower part of the Picual orchard, so we harvested those we could by hand. For the rest, we are once again using drop cloths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With such a light harvest we are, for the first time ever, not hiring additional labor to help harvest. Ruben has also, very generously, volunteered to drive the olives to the processing plant twice a week. Last year we harvest over 140,000 kilos of olives. This year we might harvest 6,000 kilos. We’re not even sure how long it will take. Who knows, I could be sharing the start of the harvest today and by the end of the week saying we’re all done! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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El inicio de la cosecha de las Aceitunas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Es esa \u00e9poca del a\u00f1o otra vez aqu\u00ed en el campo. \u00c9poca de cosechar las aceitunas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cada a\u00f1o, a partir de finales de febrero, comenzamos a planificar, preocuparnos y prepararnos para la cosecha de aceitunas. Uno pensar\u00eda que, dado que lo hacemos todos los a\u00f1os, estar\u00edamos relajados con todo el asunto. No. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cada a\u00f1o es diferente. No solo modificamos la forma en que hacemos la cosecha tratando de mantener lo que funcion\u00f3 bien el a\u00f1o anterior mientras tratamos de arreglar lo que no funcion\u00f3 bien, sino que la cantidad de aceitunas que cosechamos var\u00eda enormemente de un a\u00f1o a otro, al igual que la fecha de inicio. Todo es un plan grande, complicado y en constante cambio. Que estamos armando y tratando de implementar al mismo tiempo que mantenemos el resto de la granja en funcionamiento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debido al clima, algunas decisiones arriesgadas que tomamos el a\u00f1o pasado y pura casualidad, comenzamos la cosecha la semana pasada con el campo en la mejor forma posible. El pasto de la plantaci\u00f3n est\u00e1 cortado, las filas est\u00e1n libres de malezas, tenemos todo el ganado rotado, los campos delanteros se han plantado con cultivos de oto\u00f1o, la quinta es estable, ya hemos cosechado las gallinas; Estamos en una forma fabulosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adem\u00e1s, este a\u00f1o solo estamos cosechando el Picual. No hay aceitunas en la Arbequina. Ninguno. No somos los \u00fanicos en esto, el clima primaveral fue malo para el cuajado de frutos y muchas plantaciones de olivos tienen muy pocas o ninguna aceituna para cosechar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\u00ed que, despu\u00e9s de un comienzo lluvioso de la semana pasada, comenzamos a cosechar el mi\u00e9rcoles. Los \u00e1rboles m\u00e1s bajos de la finca se encuentran en la parte baja de Picual, por lo que cosechamos los que pudimos a mano. Por lo dem\u00e1s, volvemos a utilizar las lonas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Con una cosecha tan ligera, por primera vez en la historia, no estamos contratando mano de obra adicional para ayudar a cosechar. Rub\u00e9n tambi\u00e9n, muy generosamente, se ha ofrecido como voluntario para llevar las aceitunas a la planta de procesamiento dos veces por semana. El a\u00f1o pasado cosechamos m\u00e1s de 140.000 kilos de aceitunas. Este a\u00f1o podr\u00edamos cosechar 6.000 kilos. Ni siquiera estamos seguros de cu\u00e1nto tiempo tomar\u00e1. Qui\u00e9n sabe, podr\u00eda estar compartiendo el comienzo de la cosecha hoy y al final de la semana diciendo que hemos terminado.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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