Luigis Farm

This is proving more difficult than imagined! The land we are picking is horrendous- very steep, and covered with building materials- we occasionally have to jump out of the way because a bulding block is heading our way!
We are a team of 4 picking with olive combs and nets and stakes to prevent the olives running down the hill. The quantity seems to be good, although it vares widely from tree to tree- some have thousands of olives, some just a few, and there are around 200 trees to pick. We began on the most awkward tree- being instructed by a very elderly woman (Luigis mother) in Italian, I was tying the ladder to the tree with string on her instruction.

Paolo making picking olives look easy