Five Otters, LLC, Olive Orchard

This Saturday, Feb. 13, (weather permitting), from 9:00 - 10:30 am, I'll be at the courthouse with olive oil to sell. This Saturday ONLY. See you then!

Five Otters certified Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a field blend of Arbequina, Arbosana and Koroneiki olives milled into a silky, smooth oil with the taste of a clean, grassy olive fruit with hints of walnut and a slight peppery finish. Share in the excitement of our First Year Harvest. Share it with friends and family. Present it as a special gift or thank you. Experience the taste of this fresh extra virgin olive oil with your food. Enjoy the pure, healthy goodness extra virgin olive oil offers. Drizzle it on fresh vegetables, dip it with breads, blend with it for a tasteful salad dressing. You can sauté with it, bake with it, or marinade with it. Try it with your favorite recipes and enjoy the healthy goodness and taste difference.

Harvesting and milling started last week. An exhaustingly satisfying week. Picking and milling (delayed by the rains) finishes this week. Samples have been sent to the lab for testing and certification as Extra Virgin. Bottling begins afterwards, followed by labeling. I bring some back in a couple of weeks to sell. The oil is a deep emerald green (Facebook colors don't reflect the true green). A sample of this year's oil is the far left container, comparing (left to right) 2020, 2019, 2018.

Olives are starting to turn colors, work has started on the Harvest House and plans for the first harvest are in motion! It's been fun, the kind of fun that leaves you exhausted, with a smile. Very soon there will be fresh olive oil, bottled and barreled. Stay tuned...

The olives are growing! It's exciting to see all the olives on the trees. Harvest occurs when the olives are mature, around September/October. Milling immediately follows and then there will be plenty of oil for sale!

Look closely and you'll see the tiny olives forming!!! Orchard is still budding, blooming and now fruit setting. It's exciting to see the beginning of the olives throughout the orchard.