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Olive Oil-from hervest to press

A day with Machres Shik and family harvesting their olives trees at Kalil, Western Galilee. At the end of the day the freshly harvested olive fruit is trucked in sacks to Caise Suliman's Cold Press at the village of Abu Sinan, where fine virgin olive oil is made. -This yearly harvesting happening brings the Druze families together, it is a bond with their land, their trees and with their tradition.
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  • A younger generation olive tree planted by Machres 15 years ago.
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  • On this old olive tree Machress was seated by his father when he was a young child and did not yet participate in the olive picking.
  • Generator used to power the Oliviera, an electric tool  that has large tongs that spin around quickly, removing fruit from the tree.
  • Machres is in charge of the pruning, his sons do the picking with the Oliviera electric picker. This device shortens the picking process and reduces it to 3 days on this plot of some 50 trees.
  • The Oliviera, an electric tool  that has large tongs that spin around quickly, removing fruit from the tree.
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