The Olive trees we inherited are old don’t know how old but Jesus may have had a picnic by them once, we had around eighty five of these and since being here have planted twenty more, these started life as ten year old trees plus the five they have been in makes them approaching full fruiting young trees with more years than we have to continue their production. As we are not that young now we have had to go for the expensive route so we insure we have time to see these trees in full flow, and the next planting was only this month just before the winter this was just ten trees as we have no grants and ten fairly mature trees ready to fruit next year has set us back no less than three hundred Euro. If you would like to be a part of “The Dream” we are offering you the chance to adopt one of our trees for £55 Pounds/ €80 Euro (we charge in Pounds so the Euro rate may vary) per year for yourself or maybe as a slightly unique present for someone, in return we will send you a certificate in the name of the person of your choice along with a picture of your olive tree, further we will also send you the oil from “your“ tree at harvest time which is in early November, your gift certificate can run from any date throughout the year so it can be presented to run from someone”s birthday for instance and the oil will be early November during that period.
The harvest can vary but we guarantee no less than 75cl of oil, given the restrictions on produce between countries we have to limit the delivery of oil to EU only countries, but would love you to share in the ownership side only with certificate, pictures and of course the invitation to visit your tree if you are from outside the European Union, maybe you or a relative have links with the”old country“ might be an idea to help strengthen that link. You are welcome to adopt an older tree if you wish, or one our young “babies” who are in need of a loving adoptive parent to make sure of their welfare. This idea is more or less non profit making as we promise for every tree you adopt we will be planting another Olive tree with the funds raised, we will send a further picture of the new tree you have helped pay for as well, although we have got to wait until March before the next plantings when winter has passed, again these will be ten year old trees so the year after planting they will be producing olive oil. The new trees are of two varieties one is Piantone, and the other Leccino they are grown here because of our high altitude, and severe winters and produce an oil of high quality and unique taste, in fact during the middle ages all Olive oil produced and shipped from Le Marche carried a high surcharge in levies because of its high value around the world. OK it is not a huge amount of oil to receive but Trees only produce at their most productive time only about two litres and at their worst about half a litre, hope that does not happen though or we will have to buy in from our neighbour his oil to keep our promise of 75cl of oil to you, also you know that this is pure oil with no additions, did you know that a lot of big producers blend the oil even down to adding vegetable oil. We have a two hectare (nearly five acre) field directly behind the house and would love to fill this with around three hundred more olive trees
Also when you adopt an olive tree please try and make the time to come and visit your tree what a great excuse to have to come to Italy, you will experience our way of life.