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These are the olives covered in boiling water:

Jar on the left has brine and extra rosemary on top to keep the olives under water.
Jar on the right is cold water.

Olives in a box of salt:

I’m going to try each of these recipes with my freshly harvested olives:
Brine cured
Brine cured red-ripe or black-ripe olives are Greek-style; brine cured green olives are Sicilian style. The red-ripe olives generally turn a grey green to pink, while the black-ripe ones keep their color, becoming a Kalamata-deep purple. Again, you pick [...]

In my mom’s backyard… I pointed out to her that she has a ton of olives overflowing from the neighbor’s tree… she’d never noticed. But she does harvest their peaches too! Very kind of them to plant their fruit trees next to the fence