Turn Your Olives into Liquid Gold
The Ultimate Milling Experience
Have you ever wanted to create your very own, world-class Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
At Merkado Olive, we are opening our doors to the local community for a bespoke, immersive milling experience. We invite you to bring your own harvest to our state-of-the-art facility and step into the shoes of a master miller.
All you need to do is book a milling slot and pay 10% deposit. Then arrange for the harvesting of your olives and bring them to us asap after they are picked 30 mins before your milling slot booking.
Then you are invited to join the journey and oversee the process. We will prepare your olives for pressing. You can bring your own containers or purchase them onsite at the mill (5 litre green plastic containers). Please review our Terms and Conditions for more information or just call us and we will explain the process.
Best of all?
Our bespoke booking system means you enjoy exclusive, dedicated mill time with an experienced miller, no queuing to drop your olives off, possibility to oversee the whole process and then take your own extra virgin Olive oil home with you.
1. The VIP Arrival (No Queues)
Forget long lines and waiting around. When you book your bespoke slot, the mill is dedicated to you. Arrive with your black bins of freshly picked olives, and our team will guide you straight into the preparation area to begin your personal milling journey. Or alternatively just drop them off with us and we will prepare them for you.
2. Get Your Hands Dirty at the Leaf Blower if you want to.
The process starts with preparation, and you are in the driver's seat or we can prepare it for you. You will get to operate our powerful leaf-blowing machine to separate the twigs and leaves from your olives if you want to. True to our zero-waste philosophy, you’ll watch your leaves get gathered up to feed the local sheep! :-)
3. Bag, Weigh, and Log Your Harvest
Next, we will will bag up your clean olives, hook them onto the scale, and officially record the weight of your harvest. Tracking your yield from the very start is all part of the authentic master miller experience.
4. The Specialized Olive Bath
Then we will guide your olives into our unique, advanced water bath. Here, you will wash and cool your fruit to the perfect starting temperature. This critical step—which most standard commercial mills completely bypass—ensures any debris, pests, or worms are thoroughly removed, guaranteeing your personal oil is incredibly pure.
5. Witness the Aviation-Grade Magic
Now, the real excitement begins. Your pristine olives are fed into the top of our custom milling system, designed by our master aeronautical engineer, Haim.
You can stand side-by-side with our team and observe the olive oil magic in real-time. Watch as our precision thermal dynamics keep your olives strictly and uniformly below 27°C, protecting every delicate antioxidant. You’ll see the dried byproduct (pomace) shoot out of the red pipe—which you can touch and feel—while your own liquid gold spins through the decanter and flows out, entirely uncompromised by heat.
6. Walk Away with Your OWN Premium Extra Virgin Oil from your OWN olive trees!
The moment your oil is extracted, it is captured in stainless steel buckets and immediately transferred into your containers you bring or ones that we can provide at a small additional cost. Basically you will leave the mill holding a truly premium, high-polyphenol extra virgin olive oil that you helped craft from start to finish.
Spaces for this bespoke community experience are strictly limited to harvest season from October to December. All olive oil milled must be strictly for your own personal and family use.
Book an Olive Milling Slot Now
Please book early so we can organise the production process and meet the needs of everyone in the community.
If you are not able to meet the day which is understable due to nature and low availability of labour for picking the olives please let us know as soon as you can to cancel it or rebook it.
Please note the payment required is 10% of the booking slot to secure your space and is taken off from the whole harvest cost once we know how many litres have been produced payable on the day of milling in order to take away your precious extra virgin olive oil.