Olive Harvest: Giving the Best of Ourselves. Harvesting olives like every year, an action and an opportunity that repeats itself...this year too. An important and festive event held every year in the garden that witnessed Jesus’ agony and great pain, where the Friars Minor, with the help of volunteers, friends, and families, harvest the fruit of these blessed olive trees. The olive tree in the Holy Land is a great symbol of peace and also symbolizes the history of this land, closely linked to th

I cured olives at home for the fourth time and I’m so excited to show you all! This was my first batch that I have successfully been able to remove the seeds from and stuff! I stuffed the olives with walnut Gouda cheese and kept the larger ones whole- the flavor and texture is amazing! Home cured olives are pretty easy to make it’s just a little bit time consuming. From start to finish these took me right around 2 weeks to make! I started out by curing the olives in food grade lye for 12 hours.