Sunnylands Olive Harvest

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Sunnylands Olive Harvest

You are invited to participate in Sunnylands’ first olive harvest on Saturday, September 13, beginning at 6:30 am!

Individuals, families, community groups, master gardeners, and novice olive pickers can help pick the fruit from cut branches (no climbing required).

To register, please email education@sunnylands.org or call 760-202-2234 or 760-202-2264 and leave your name, phone number, and email address and include the number in your party. https://www.sunnylands.org/news/view/679

Sunnylands Olive harvest

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Megan Goehring says:

September 8, 2014 at 4:34 am

If the weather is nice this might be a fun outing, however, it looks as though the public will not be taking olives home. The website says they will be collected to be bottled as olive oil and then sold by the estate.

Thomas Thies says:

September 7, 2014 at 9:26 pm

That sounds like great fun and a chance to be close to history.

Donna Chaban-Delmas says:

September 7, 2014 at 9:51 am

I harvested my own olives for several years, each time yielding a crop of some 30 gallons. If anyone needs advice on curing their olives, please feel free to contact me. Or Janet Newcomb – we are “old hands” at this.
If you go, here’s a gathering tip – bring along one or more of those mesh, folding laundry hampers. They weigh nothing, you can sling it over your arm and put the olives in there. Better than a heavy bucket.