Saturday, August 11, 2007

Views of La Mancha - Las olivas y el huerto

Olives are an important product of the La Mancha region. Rocío's family grow them like many other families here as well. They belong to a collective that delivers the crops to the factories which purchase the olives and also provide the products to the participants - olive oil and wine for example.



These are the olive trees.



The olives. These are still young, the season to collect them is around December.



The Olive Inspector at work ;)


This is "el huerto", the patch of land where the family grows vegetables and fruits for their own use. In the next post I'll show what grows there.

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