Olives 2017 Day four

With the weather not being good the next couple of days we decided on Tuesday morning to try and have the olives, we harvested so far, pressed. We found the guy in charge that day willing to put us on the afternoon list, around five. Because you don’t know how much olives the other are bringing in, the time your olives are being pressed is very flexible.

And so we got things going.
Get olives in bags

Clean containers

Get transport
We arranged for a truck to pick up the 18 bags. The truck could not get up our road so I had to drive down five times.

We were at the press from 4.30 hours until 09.30 hours. This press works very quickly!
It is nice to talk to people about the harvest. To wish everybody:” eat well from your olive oil” and to comment/gossip about the clean or dirty olives ( if they have a lot of leaves)

First batch 706 kilo of olives, 133 liters of olive oil. Quality 0,5. We are so grateful. We worked hard all together but it was worth it. Thanks Anne Guurt for everything !

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Skopelos in 90 seconds

Skopelosnews is a blog that only can exist because of its readers and their contributions and comments. The readers love for Skopelos makes me also want to go on and write for them. The effort they make by sending in comments, photographs and videos makes it soo worthwhile !

This video was made by Simon Hopson. It took him a long time but now we can enjoy his lovely video about Skopelos and his family. Thank you very much Simon. It’s a beauty !

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Today in fashion; olive picking clothes

Make sure you wear clothes that can absorb olive oil, mud, olives and rain water. Don’t throw away the clothes. You might use them again in a couple of years!

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Olives 2017 Day three

When picking olives a feeling creeps up on you that you should pick up every good olive that is around because “we don’t want to waste one” This feeling is not a good feeling because every very small olive that falls between the slats of our “olive machine” you feel you need to pick up !!!

Today there were just the two of us. Husband and me. Pretty difficult but we managed to do one and a half trees before the rain started to fall quite hard. We collected all the sheets and nets, the buckets and the olives were brought to their resting place. Tomorrow another day….

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Great result !

Last weekend 73 cats and four dogs were neutered in a combined effort from all the vets of Skopelos, vets from outside Skopelos, Straycare Skopelos and many volunteers and animal lovers. In a big team effort the animals were rounded up and brought to the clinic where they were operated on. Everybody helped out to make this a success and it was.

(The photos were given to skopelosnews by Natascha fro Straycare Skopelos)

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Olives 2017 Day two

When picking olives you always have olives leaves that you need to remove so this tool seperates the leaves from the olives. The cleaner the olives, the purer the olive oil.

We did a lot again. beautiful weather and more help from brother in law and nephew. More hands, more work done.

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Olives 2017 Day one part two

If you put to many olives on a heap they will press themselves. We put a sheet down and put all the olives on there and fill the bags right before we take them to the olive press.
The first bucket

and the olives we picked after the first day.

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Olives 2017 Day one

And we are off! Last night, almost in the dark, some last canes were cut so they can be used to get the olives out of the tree. We have had conversations in which part of the land we should start picking, we know around what time we will start, we have seen the weather bulletin, I have organized lunch, I am looking for old clothes now and need to do some shopping. Are we ready ???

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Help

When her son Jannis got hurt after an accident Georgia (from Jialos restaurant) took him to the health center in Skopelos town and very quickly realized that the health center is still in need of help concerning medicines and medical tools. Jannis is now fully recovered but Georgia did not want to just forget about everything and instead she put a small story of Jannis his accident on her Facebook page and a request to her friends to donate some money for the health center to be able to buy some medical tools and medicines. Within a few days she collected about 350 euros and together with the health center a shopping list was made and things were ordered. They have arrived and have been handed over to the staff. Everybody is very happy. Thank you Georgia for this great successful initiative.

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Action

To reduce the cat population on Skopelos the following initiative has been launched.

After confirmation with Vetcare Skopelos (Dimitri and Nikki) we can say that Friday afternoon after 17.30 hours and Saturday, the whole day stray cats, both male and female can be brought to Vetcare Skopelos and can be sterilized and castrated. The cost is 15 euros per cat and no appointment is needed. For any questions please ask Vetcare. The surgery is on the road to Stafylos next to the second petrol station.

Update:
The initiative was organized by Natasha Labrogianni of Stray Care Skopelos together with the volunteer vets of EDKE.
As this programme is scheduled for only this short period of time Natasha has organised for enough cats to be neutered but feel free to contact her on 6949521442.

Natasha would be more than happy if people would support her continuous effort to help the strays of Skopelos.
Please donate to PayPal and contact Natasha for this at straycare@yahoo.com.
In order to enable her to send receipts please send your name, full address and Email to Natassa with a separate email.

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