2018, Overcoming Challenges 😖
We know. We are very bad on posting updates on our blog, but updates and recipes are posted on our Facebook page daily (https://www.facebook.com/ranchoazulyoro/), and by daily, we mean daily, as well as Instagram and Twitter. So the question remains, what have we been doing? We started the year attempting to expand to deal with our largest olive harvest ever. It takes time to get our oils in for EVOO certification, formulation time for the flavored oils, working on approved labels to meet the new Food Management Act, as well as creating our other products, marketing, bottling, as well as all the exterior farm work, pruning of the grapevines, pruning a couple hundred olive trees, racking all of our wines, getting all the olive oil in for competition -- the list is endless. With two people working on the farm, something usually suffers in attempting to check off all of those items on the To Do List. Despite resolutions to get out of the b...