Benvenuto to Olivum, we are a family owned and operated olive plantation that focuses on growing our olives the way that our ancestors have done for centuries, with love, the Umbrian sun and rich soil
We grow our own olives on our 20 acre olive plantation, in the beautiful foot hills of Perugia, Italy
In in the warm September days, our family heads into the plantation and start our harvest process. We do this by knocking down the olives from the trees onto cloths laid below
Then we bring our harvest to the farm, where we wash the olives and seperate out as many leaves as we can
Once we have completed the manual cleaning and seperation process, we get high tech! We feed the cleaned ovlives to a large centrifuge that presses the olives and seperates the oil
When the oil has been extracted from the olives, we start the bottling process. We hand bottle and lable each bottle to ensure it meets our family standard! As we consume what we make...