Harvesting by hand is called ‘brucatura,’ and is slow, manual, and old fashioned work taking the olives from the tree. Modern methods, which we follow, use battery powered hand-held electric rakes with long extensions to reach upper branches, and this method treats the trees and branches with care and ensures that the olives are free of bruising and spoiling.

Canino olives at harvest are quite small, and are stubborn little guys to get off the branches with repeated passing of the rake through the foliage and branches to tease them off the tree. You have to work for the reward, but the single-varietal Canino olive oil is worth it, renown for its quality and taste.