From Libellula's Kitchen & Land

Or the story of how an olive grown, picked, and pressed in a family farm in Italy made its way to your kitchen table. But before we begin the story, here’s a look back at the journey leading up to this year’s harvest... In 2021: Our olive groves were hit in April by a freezing Siberian wind. Most of our olive flower buds froze and died that night. A scorching summer with little rain followed. In total, we lost 90% of our harvest. In 2022: A year of plenty; a year of celebration for farmers across Sabina. We poured our...

We all thought that the 2023 would also be a harvest of plenty. April started out fantastic; farmers all across Italy were delighted to see their groves full of olive flowers. But then the weather turned very strange. Rainstorms came every single morning, and the afternoon weather switched to unusually hot temperatures. Now this would be fine weather for a few days, but not for a full month. The hot sun in the afternoon combined with the damp rain of the morning began burning off our olive flowers. By the end of spring, more than half of our flowers were...