Adopt an olive tree that we cultivate under the Organic Farming regulations of the European Union since 1998. During the process of adoption you can choose a name which we will use to identify your olive tree. The older olive trees on our farm (between 70 and 80 years old) are mainly of a very typical variety of Puglia: the Coratina. We do not call them "old" because the olive tree is an extraordinary plant, which can live for centuries. Coratina olive trees are very resistant and adapt to a large variety of soils, and also to ours which are stony and calcareous. The origin of the name of this variety derives from a small town in the area called "Corato". Curiously, our grandfather was also called, in our local dialect, "il coratino" precisely because he moved from that city to our town as an olive tree pruner. In our fields there are also olive trees of the Ogliarola Barese variety, while the youngest - planted in 2017 - are of the Leccino variety. We take care of our trees one by one, and we plant them in the traditional way, with about 7 meters of distance between them. We have been cultivating olive trees under the organic farming certification for more than twenty years. It was our father who made this decision in 1998 when organic farming was known to very few people. We follow the trees throughout the year, from pruning to their nourishment with substances permitted by organic farming, to the semi-mechanized olive harvest, to processing in the mill. We select only the best olives for our oil and we grind them within 12/24 hours of harvesting. We cold press the olives and the oil is then filtered. We collect the olives respecting and protecting the fauna that lives in our olive grove, especially the birds. This is why we have signed the manifesto for the protection of migratory birds in olive groves. Terradiva is our way of restoring a little beauty and dignity to the world of agriculture. The Terradiva brand was founded in 2015 by my sister Angela and I. Today, in Terradiva there is our whole family, it is a small business, so our products are handcrafted, they are packaged and labeled one by one by hand. As a younger generation, we are committed to combining family experience with our training and contemporary vision of a family-run organic farm, focused on sustainability and the care of our territory. Since the birth of the brand we have obtained numerous awards for our Allegro 100% Coratina oil: at the international BIOL organic oils award we received Gold Medal “Olio Novello” 2016 and 2017, Silver Medal “Olio” 2016 and 2019. The prestigious German magazine Der Feinschmecker Oil Award in 2018 has included our Allegro oil among the 250 best extra virgin olive oils from around the world, in 106th place out of 700 participants. The productive life of an olive tree is around 100 years. For as long as you want to keep it and we can continue taking care of it, you can renew your adoption year after year. If your olive tree dies, we will replace it with no additional cost and assuring the delivery of your harvest from others. Each olive tree produces an average of 6l per season.