This September we harvested our first almonds! That is how they did it in the picture. Yup they knocked the almonds out of the tree onto those plastic tarps. Then they drug the tarp to the next tree. I was told that the income from this crop was going to be about what the costs would be. Well I was misinformed. It appears the cost of the harvesting was almost 3 times the income---OUCH! Oh well..next time I'll know to ask more questions.