Harvesting Olives in Portugal - Honest Work

Photo of author picking olives in the rain (Photo by Cynthia Adina Kirkwood)

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Such a pleasure to pick olives in a harvest, where accountability is in the crop itself. Plump and healthy fruit promises to yield delicious oil.

There are the riper black and sepia olives, deep reds, many with variegated colors, and the younger pale green ones, which give a peppery taste to the oil.

In Oliveira do Hospital Municipality, standing under the silvery green leaves of a tree, it seems like a world unto itself, impervious to outside noise and interference.

A rejuvenating respite.

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(Photo by Cynthia Adina Kirkwood)

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