Almonds on tree with outer hulls nearly off

If still attached to the shell, the outer hull had to be removed before delivery

Irrigation pipe for the almond trees

Lars Helge checking out almonds on one of his trees

We put plastic under the trees to catch the almonds and either shook or knocked the branches with poles

Per doing some shaking

Tove holding up side of plastic to catch almonds falling from tree

Rasmus doing plastic duty

Dumping almonds from plastic into carton

Taking a break

Kari doing clean-up of almonds that fell beyond the plastic

Per doing clean-up ...

... and Mardon

On the 1st day we didn't use plastic along the cliff above the road

Marie, Ingunn, Tove, and Barb enthusiastically awaiting resumption of the harvest

Sorting the almonds from the tree branches & hulls that also fell from the shaking

Sorting

Resting and sorting

Resting and sorting

Sorting

Quality of almonds tested as Lars Helge sells his almonds

A big check for the first 3/4 of the almonds: 104.33 Euro! (Lunch that day was about 240 Euro.)

Another method of taking almonds down from the orchards