Soul and Soil Based Living
Organic Olive OIL Community Supported Olives!
One question we are asking now is how much do we harvest? The local olive presses also require we harvest a minimum of 200kg (the scale of the press otherwise it's not worth turning it on). We also need to harvest a minimum to cover the cost of the press, harvesting gear, and manpower. This is where you, our community come in! Pre-orders are open now! Help us plan ahead!
Production Costs! Harvest & Press
We've been checking out this year's harvest and it looks very promising! Here's the deal. Let's say we need 10kg of olives to make 1 litre of beautiful organic oil. We are currently guestimating that enough of our trees are growing 20-30kg each some of the more productive varieties might have 40kg. That's approximately 2-4 letters of oil per tree.
Olive oil content varies between 9% and 12% depending on the variety of olives. We have a few different varieties on the farm.
This means we get approximately 10L of oil for 100kg of olives (Frank corrected my previous calculations)
Frank estimates that we need 4 people harvesting for a day (8hr) to get 100kg of olives.
4 people times 8 hours at a minimum wage of $23.50 so our harvest costs for one day come out at $750.
The olive press requires a minimum harvest of 200kg for $320. This is approximately $20L of oil for $320. $16 per L. We need to do a minimum of 2 days' harvest for 20L of oil. So our harvest cost for 2 days and 20L is $1500.
The labour costs of $1500 plus the $320 press costs, total $1820 for 20L of oil, so producing 1L costs $91.
This does not include the yearly orchard management though at this stage these costs are being internalised due to our organic practices and utilisation of free ecosystem services.
This is problematic! $91 is not affordable for any of us! We have beautiful olives and it would be a shame to let them go to waste. Bring the price of oil down by helping with the harvest!
Help us plan ahead by pre-ordering now! This way we know how much we need to harvest.
If you join our harvesting team for half a day, you save us $9.50 per L. If you join for a full day, you save us $19 per L. Join the harvesting team and get your olive oil discounted! It's $34.60 per L for a day or $44.10 per L for a half-day.
Prices Olive Oil
Help us plan ahead by pre-ordering now!
If join our harvesting team for a half day you save us $9.50 per L. If you join for a full day you save us $19 per L. Join our harvesting team and get your olive oil discounted! $34.60 per L for a day or $44.10 per L for a half-day!