Why Olive Oil? Gethsemane means, "Place of the Oil Press"
Jesus literally spent his last night between a rock and a hard place too!
If you have any experience making your own olive oil, please post it here and "follow" this so we can ask questions.
A couple of us are researching on the net how to make OLIVE OIL with our kids for a Garden of Gethsemane cooking lesson. Lots of ideas out there.
The best approach we can see involves buying a seed press to extract the olives, or building our own makeshift press with wood and weight. But we're wondering about an EASIER/CHEAPER solution and process that would work for the average Sunday School.
Neil
Update:
It has been many years since we asked this question, but we wait in hopes that someday, someone will have the perfect process for pressing olive oil with children.
Here's a style of olive press from biblical times:
