Our Process Sustainable farming The production for cold-pressed olive oil comes down to the correct and proper harvesting and gentle olive-to-oil process. Horse manure is used as a fertilizer and no machines are used for harvesting. The traditional method consists of knocking olive trees with sticks and waiting for olives to fall off, the olives are then caught in a netting spread out under the trees and then picked by hand to assure that only the best olives are picked for the final production process. Sometimes the whole crop is picked by hand from start to finish, when harvesting for very fine olive oil production. The highest quality of olive oil is ‘flor de aceite’ (flower of the oil) which is essentially a fine juice that is neither centrifuged nor pressed. It’s the remaining juice that is collected from the olive paste in the process of grinding. This juice contains all the goods, the strong piquant flavour, the vitamins and minerals and unsaturated fatty acids.
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