OIL HARVEST AND OIL-PRESS
Thes year at our school we
are working out a project that has to dowith Mediterranean
diet and the basis of this diet is the olive oil.
So our teacher thought that it would be a nice experience to see how
olive oil is produced and to share this experience with the children
of other countris.
Olive oil is produced like this: in the beginning workers cut the
olive. Bifore they cut them they should spread special nylon tets under
the olive trees. Then a man climbs up the tree and he starts beating
the branches with a stick so that the olives fall down. They fall on
the
special nylons. The workers pick up the olives and they throw them
into big baskets. Then they take all the olives to the oil press.
And the procedure starts; first they put all of them into a piece
of machinery which removes the leaves and then into a special Washing-machine
where olives are washed.
After that there is a special nipping-press which turns the olives
into a pulp and removes the stones. The pulp falls into a piece of
machinery through some pipes and we get oil out of it. So we take
the olive oil which is very useful and tasty.
JOANNA GONTINAKOU
5th grade student)
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