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Home-Cured Olives Revisited

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You may remember the article we ran on Harald Zoschke’s home-cured olive how-to.

He’s been busy again.

Since early 2014, Harald and his wife Renate have lived in Northern Italy, at beautiful Garda Lake. This is the world’s northernmost region where olive trees grow (on a commercial scale). Here they have some nice olive trees in their yard, and in early November 2015 they had a wonderful harvest of 12 kg (about 26 lbs.) dark mature olives (cultivar Leccino).