In January, an annual ritual takes place in the city of Valencia – shaking of the oranges from the thousands of orange trees scattered around the city. With approximately 12,000 of them, this is a big job.
In 2018, Valencia developed a bat-like machine to do this (which is appropriate since the bat is the symbol of Valencia – more on that in a future post!). I guess you’d call this machine an “orange shaker” and it’s an amusing process to watch. Check out this video:
The city has estimated they will gather about 460,000 kilograms of oranges this year. That’s about 1 million pounds or 500 tons. No wonder they invented a shaking machine!
These oranges are edible, but bitter and so they are composted and used by local farmers to fertilize their fields.
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Great video on the shaking of the trees….How sad that the oranges are not edible!
Reminds me of the Almond tree shakers in central California.
That was an alarming amount of oranges falling. What a clever bat invention! Bruce Wayne-esque.