There are a lot of small, artisanal and organic producers in Italy that are keeping the Italian countryside looking like a picture postcard, and articles like this don’t really help our cause! It’s only the intensively farmed olive groves have soil erosion and water table problems. Organic olive groves like ours don’t use techniques like deep ploughing between the trees, intensive fertilization and pesticide application. In Italy there is a renaissance of small olive oil producers like ours as people are seeing the benefits in the quality of oil we produce. We at Nudo strongly believe in bringing the producer and the consumer closer together and so have started an olive tree adoption scheme, where you can adopt a tree and receive the oils that it produces. You can even come and give the tree a hug if you like.

Ciao for now,

Jason.