The Scripps College Olive Harvest tradition was postponed last fall, despite its biannual schedule, due to a lack of rainfall last academic year, according to Scripps’ Landscape Operations Manager Joya Salas.
The olive harvest tradition began in 2012 after Core II students proposed the idea of harvesting the olive trees lining the school’s Humanities Building rather than spraying them with chemicals to prevent fruit production.
Each year, Salas decides whether or not there will be an olive harvest by observing the trees throughout the year and anticipating their fruit yield.