Olive Harvest 2022

The combination of heavy rains last winter, followed by a long hot summer, created ideal conditions for growing olives. Therefore, our trees produced a “bumper crop” this fall. Amazed at the size of our harvest, we were left wondering how we would manage to pick so many olives. Thankfully, God sent help in the form of many volunteers who came to assist! The groups of volunteers joined us between mid-October and early December and helped us pick olives. The large and green ones had to be carefully selected for pickling. We sent the rest to the olive press. Now we have tons of olives to serve our guests at our Biblical lunches and lots of olive oil to use while preparing the meals.

A SERVE volunteer olive picking in Nazareth Village.