Our Process

No Pesticides
Early Harvest
Hand-Picked
Cold Pressed

We don’t use any chemicals.

We don’t use any urea in our soil. Our soil is fertilised by our sheep that eat up all the fallen olives, leaves and branches. This means the entire life cycle of our olive trees sustains themselves.

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Early Harvest & Pressed within 4-6 Hours

We harvest our olives every October just after the first rain has passed. This means we do an early harvest when the olives are bright green. This ensures their high anti-oxidant count, better nutritional quality, and enhanced flavour profile.

We make sure to press our olives within 4-6 hours of them being picked, that way they are at their freshest. Commercial olives typically don’t get pressed for near 16 hours which means the olives will have already entered their fermentation phase. The fermentation of the olives will affect the taste and the quality of the olive oil.

Hand-Picked

At Beît Ballout, we make sure to hand-pick all of our olives. The reason for this is that we are able to ensure the quality of each, and every olive that gets pressed.

On commercial farms, the practice is to use large tree shakers that shake the trees and force the olives to fall to the ground. We refuse to use such methods as we feel that it does not give the respect to the tree that it deserves. More importantly, the olives that fall to the ground may get damaged and bruised. Thus, affecting the quality of the olive oil.

Another important aspect to hand-picking is the fact that we provide jobs for Palestinian and Syrian refugees who are prevalant in the South of Lebanon. We make sure that they are all well take care of during the harvesting season.

We believe it is important to keep olive-picking a community based activity, as it has been the case in the Levante for centuries.

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Cold-Pressed

We use the cold press method of producing oil which ensures that all the olive’s nutritional benefits remain intact. This cold press method involves using a granite wheel that crushes the olives. A technique which has been used in the Levante region for centuries.

The result is a beautiful and pure olive juice that is packed with polyphenols and other essential nutrients that our olives hold.

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