How do you make homemade olive oil using home grown olives?

This is a bit complicated, Cindy, for being made at home, at least if one has more olive trees. We have here very long tradition of preparing olive oil - so we have on almost every island (and in the towns on the coast) small "factories" which have all equipment for preparation of natural olive oil. So - people deliver their olives to the "factory" - (olive oil processor) and get their own olive oil.

From the one grown up olive tree one gets aprox 3-5 litres (6-10 lb) of olive oil .

But here is the whole cold procedure of preparation, with one olive tree and little effort, I belive it can be done at home as well.

1. The olives are washed to remove leaves, sand, debris etc.

3. Paste is mixed for approx. 40mins to bring together the microscopic oil molecules.

4. Olive paste is pressed to separate the oil/water mixture from the solids (this is a bit difficult part,you need olive oil press for that, but I belive that it might be possible to use wine press for that step, or...be inventive).

6. The oil is finally cleared by filtration (not nessessary).

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