Olive Oil Adventure

Yesterday, we went through our initial inspection to become certified organic. After completing the rafts of paperwork to create our Organic System Plan, (It seems odd to me that I needed to print so many pages… Not quite a sustainable activity.), having that reviewed, then revising the paperwork for the third time, the big day [...]

It certainly looks that way. All of the downed limbs are due to recent pruning activities around Sylverleaf. We are aiming for a very heavy pruning of all 9 rows in Block 2 of the orchard, consisting of about 230 trees and a light pruning of another 300.  So far, we have moved through three [...]