The story

Along the olives’ route, the group sees leaves and small twigs take a different path. ‘They are not needed to make oil from the olives,’ the woman in charge explains. Mills may separate them using different systems.

On this visit, the children watch the step from outside and then find it in a diagram. Neri says the term ‘leaf removal’. Leo prefers to remember it like this: ‘Taking out the leaves that ended up among the olives.’

Ada draws two arrows. Rumo notices that cleaning the harvest does not mean taking the leaves off the tree. Their olive tree is still green in the field. Sami continues the fruit’s line towards the next stage.