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This is an excerpt from an article called "Hands on:  Olive Oil from Galilee" at Jellypress.com We were delighted when Abbie Rosner sent us a “Hands On” submission about her experience making olive oil in Northern Israel.  We only wish we could have been there.  Abbie writes: I have lived in the Galilee in Northern Israel for over twenty years - much of which has been spent learning and practicing the local culinary traditions. For the past few years, my husband and a good friend and I have been making olives - curing the green ones in brine and the black ones in salt. This year we decided to be ambitious and make our own olive oil. After scouting out available trees, with a few more friends we picked sporadically over 4 days, then took our yield to one of the many olive presses that are working around the clock during this short season. We were amazed to find that we had picked almost 1000 pounds of olives, which produced almost 20 gallons of oil - well over a year’s supply for each of us! Abbie is studying cookbooks from the Middle Ages and writing about the Arab-Jewish overlap in foodways.  She tells us she will soon be offering culinary tours.  We will keep you all posted on Abbie.  Here's the link: http://jellypress.com/article/hands_on_olive_oil_from_galilee/