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JdeB

#Rewilding #Hens and #Olives #Cyprus

"Retired hens revitalize Cyprus olive groves | REUTERS" [2:11 min]
by Reuters
Read the full story here:
-> reuters.com/business/environment/retired-hens-revitalise-cyprus-olive-groves-2025-02-24/ <-

youtube.com/watch?v=0Y2bzRZMpo

Quote by R:
"Feb 24, 2025 #Reuters #cyprus #olive
While hens are usually sent to slaughter after their egg-laying years, these have been saved by organic farmers in Cyprus who need them to fertilize their olive groves."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature

YouTubeRetired hens revitalize Cyprus olive groves | REUTERSBy Reuters
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The Wee Owl Art

An olive branch. This drawing would make a nice addition to your kitchen decor, or as the olive branch is a symbol of peace maybe it will be a way to hope for better days for our beautiful little planet.
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#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#OliveBranch #Olives #OriginalArt #Drawing #PenAndInk #ColourPencil #MixedMedia #NatureArtwork #NatureArtist #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ScottishArtist #ShopIndy #GiftIdeas #ArtShop

A drawing of an olive branch on cream toned paper. Perhaps the most well-known symbolic meaning for the olive branch, is peace and friendship. Olives are a popular fruit and this will make an excellent addition to your kitchen decor. An original art work Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm). This is a standard photo size in the UK and USA and should be easy to DIY frame. Sold unframed
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AxWax

To answer @keefmarshall's questions about how to pickle #olives (see mastodon.online/@keefmarshall/ ), here's a quick thread:

Before actually pickling the olives you will need to remove their bitter compounds.

For this you will need:
- gloves (as olive juices can stain your hands for days)
- a bucket
- a chopping board and sharp knife
or (if you're a traditionalist)
- a wood stump and a small block of wood that fits into your hand
...

🧵1/x

A yellow ceramic bowl is filled with olives that are somewhere between green and black in colour and ripeness - one might call them purple I guess. They have been cut and rinsed for several weeks to remove the bitter compounds and are ready to be jarred in brine. The bowl is surrounded by some of the ingredients we add to the brine, namely a couple of lemons and leaves of a carob tree.
#Pickling#Preserving#OliveHarvest
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AI6YR Ben

"On Decatur Street, Central Grocery and Deli's storefront has remained dark since 2021, when Hurricane Ida smashed a brick wall through the roof of the circa-1906 shop. At the neighboring liquor shop that now distributes its famed muffulettas, vendors were hawking the cured-meat and olive salad sandwich on Tuesday as a perfect hurricane snack—one that doesn't require refrigeration."

#hurricanesnack#muffuletta#olives
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Ricardo Harvin

@ScienceAlert "In mice", but I use #OliveOil, a lot, and have had quarts of #olives as a major component of my weekly #diet, from meals to snacking.

I have a mid-year #health checkup Thursday so I'm very interested to see what my #A1C level is because I've returned to a more regular diet, including bread, wine, and lower-sugar desserts, since my last checkup in January when my level was 5.5.

I've been on 10/1,000 #Synjardy, from 5/1,000, since then.

🤞🏿

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AxWax

As I'm still away from my lovely kittehs, this #Caturday features a repost of when #RubiaTheCat was on inspection duties to make sure I am doing a proper job cutting each olive to be brined individually before submerging them in fresh water.

I am wearing gloves as the olive juices can stain skin for days.

Once done the water needs changing daily to remove the olives' bitterness before they can be brined and jarred.

A tortoiseshell cat is sitting on a wooden pallet and sniffing a green olive I am holding up in my gloved right hand. In the front a large chef's knive and behind her a white bucket full of green and dark olives can be seen.
#CatsWithJobs#OliveHarvest#olives
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

In 2023 #OliveOil bulk prices have doubled (after some years of being relatively stable).

And, of course, behind this is a fall in supply caused by crop failures & #climatechange;

so perhaps the Q. is: like the #wine industry, is the shift in climate patterns (whatever its massive damage elsewhere) going to present an opportunity to English #farmers to move into the cultivation of #olives?

As the South of England gets warmer so the fields they are a changing....

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