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Spring in Umbria is when the olive oil year truly begins.
Spring in Umbria is when the olive oil year truly begins. As the grove comes back to life, olive trees enter a critical stage where buds decide between leaves or future olives, quietly setting the potential for the entire harvest. At the same time, biodiversity on the ground supports soil health, moisture, and resilience. With…
March in the Olive Grove: The Beginning of the Next Olive Harvest
Field Notes from Paciano, Umbria The final bottles of our 2025 extra virgin olive oil harvest are now making their way into kitchens. At the same time, a new season is beginning in the hills of Umbria. These photos were taken recently in the olive groves around Paciano. They are in the Trasimeno region of Umbria. Our olives grow…
Back from Umbria: First Harvest
My first olive harvest in Umbria — two long days, 250 trees, 900 kilos of olives, and about 100 liters of neon green oil. From the hum of the abbacchiatori to the late-night drives to the mill, every drop tells a story of hard work, friendship, and the beauty of small-batch olive oil.
Early Harvest 2025: A Promising Start from Umbria
First tests from our 2025 Umbrian harvest are in — and the results look promising. Here’s what we found in the frantoio.
🌿 Field Update from Umbria – August 2025
Field update from Paciano, Umbria — how we’re protecting our olive trees from the olive fruit fly during a warm, dry summer.
July Update: Heat, Roots, and the Making of Bold OilÂ
July in the grove is a lesson in patience. The trees are loaded with tiny green drupes, each one a sealed promise of the oil we’ll taste come October. We’ve just passed pit hardening, the stage where the inner stone finishes forming, and now the fruit is quietly expanding, cell by cell. Inside each olive, enzymes…
June in the Grove – Fruit Set, Feathered Helpers, and Summer HeatÂ
Dear SOLO OLIVES Club, The trees have spoken — and they’re growing. This past month in Umbria, the olive groves moved into one of the most delicate and defining phases of the season: fruit set. After flowering in May, the blossoms have given way to tiny green pearls — the first signs of this year’s olives.…
May Update: It starts with a bud
There’s a quiet transformation happening in Umbria right now—one that begins with the tiniest detail: olive flower buds. These are the first signs of what will eventually become our very first SOLO OLIVES harvest. What You’re Looking At Those clusters in the photo are called inflorescences—small groups of buds that sprout from where the leaf meets…