• 001 On All Saints' Day (November 1), all of us from the Bible School went out to Alfredo's land
  • 002 heading into the olive grove...
  • 003 olives!
  • 004 It was a cloudy day, but not too cold...perfect sweatshirt weather!
  • 005 Alfredo explains the process...
  • 006 We spread hug round tarps, specially made for olive harvesting, under the trees
  • 007 Alfredo arranging the first tarp...
  • 008 putting out the tarps
  • 009 getting started
  • 010 To harvest olives, you use a small hand-held rake to rake the olives off of the branches.  T
  • 011 Anna getting some of the higher branches...
  • 012 We used ladders to get up to the higher branches.
  • 013 Raking down some olives...
  • 014 That just doesn't look quite safe...
  • 015 Gary goes for the high ones...
  • 016 up in a tree
  • 017 Tammy, hard at work
  • 018 David harvesting the top branches
  • 019 Matt and Lauren, up in a tree...
  • 020 waiting for Alfredo to cut some high branches and toss them down
  • 021 Tammy
  • 022 Gary getting into precarious positions...
  • 023 finishing up the first few trees
  • 024 It's okay, you don't have to get every single one!
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