On April 30th, 2013, THE TRIMMING OF THE OLIVE TREES…

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Pugliesi olive tree trimmer showing the exact age of each of various sections of the branches which he can determine just by their color

…kicked off at first light on my last morning on the farm, to the sounds of the crew of Pugliesi – who specialize in this very particular work – moving trough the fields with chain saws and then long trimmers followed by small clippers, getting rid of anything that the tree doesn’t need that season to produce and support it’s olives, transforming hundreds of trees in hours.