Skip to content
MoliseOlive Oil
Ancient olive trees on a hillside in Molise, late in the day

Santa Maria Oliveto · Molise

Adopt a five-hundred-year-old olive tree.

A family grove of about 1,500 trees, some of them half a millennium old. You adopt a specific tree. You receive its oil.

Adopt a TreeRead the story of the grove

Our story

The same family, the same hill.

The grove is in Santa Maria Oliveto, a village in Pozzilli, in the province of Isernia, Molise. About 1,500 olive trees grow on the slope. Some are around 500 years old. The same family has tended them for generations.

The olives are picked by hand and cold-pressed into extra virgin olive oil. Nothing is brought in from another farm to fill a bottle.

A stone village with terracotta roofs, olive trees in the foreground
Santa Maria Oliveto, above the olive terraces.
Deeply furrowed bark of a centuries-old olive tree
Some trunks on this hill have stood for about five centuries.

You are not buying a generic oil. You adopt a specific tree, you name it, and the harvest that follows is from this grove.

This season, adoptions are open for the first 500 trees. Each one keeps its place on the hill. You will have its photograph, and you will know where it stands.

How it works

Four steps, from a name to a bottle.

  1. 01

    Choose a tier and name your tree.

    One tree, a pair, or the estate share. The name you give it is the name on the certificate.

  2. 02

    Pay on Stripe.

    You finish on Stripe’s page. Stripe emails the receipt at once. If this is a gift, their name is on the adoption. The oil follows.

  3. 03

    Follow the year in photographs.

    Pruning, flowering, harvest, pressing. You see the work on your tree as the season turns.

  4. 04

    Your oil arrives in December.

    After the harvest it is bottled and shipped, with your name on the label.

  • A pruned ancient olive tree with a wooden ladder against the trunk
    Pruning
  • Cream-white olive blossoms on a silvery branch
    Flowering
  • Hands picking olives into a woven basket
    Harvest
  • Green-gold olive oil pouring from a cold press into glass
    Pressing

Choose your tree

Three ways to adopt, for one harvest year.

Renewal is annual and voluntary. We never charge the next year unless you ask us to.

One Tree

Selected

$99/ year

3 litres of extra virgin olive oil.

  • 3 litres of extra virgin olive oil
  • A named tree, with GPS location and a photograph
  • Seasonal updates
  • A custom label
Adopt One Tree

Family Grove

$179/ year

6 litres, from two trees.

  • 6 litres of extra virgin olive oil
  • Two named trees, each with a location and a photograph
  • Seasonal updates and custom labels
  • A harvest-day video
Adopt Family Grove

Estate

$299/ year

12 litres, and a place at the harvest.

  • 12 litres of extra virgin olive oil
  • Two named trees, each with a location and a photograph
  • Seasonal updates, custom labels, and a harvest-day video
  • An invitation to visit the grove and join the harvest
Adopt Estate
Three unlabeled bottles of green-gold olive oil on a wooden table

Shipping is included for delivery in the European Union. Delivery to the United States adds a flat $$60 at checkout.

The oil is bottled after pressing and leaves the grove in December, with the name you choose on the label.

Aerial view of olive trees on terraces above a Molise village

The grove

Pick your tree.

A map of the hill is coming — each of the first 500 trees in its place, so you can choose the one you adopt. It is not ready yet.

1,500

Olive trees on the family grove.

500

Open for adoption this season.

A name

You name the tree. We match you to one of them and send its photograph and where it stands.

FAQ

Before you adopt.

In December, after the harvest. The olives are picked by hand in autumn, cold-pressed, and then bottled for the journey.

Say it is a gift and give their name. That name goes on the label. You pay on Stripe, and Stripe emails the receipt to you. Their oil follows in December.

Delivery inside the European Union is included in the price. Shipping to the United States adds a flat $60 on Stripe’s checkout page, whichever tier you choose.

An adoption is for one harvest year. Before the next season we write to you. Renewing is your choice — nothing is charged automatically.

Estate adoptions include an invitation to visit the grove and join the harvest. On the other tiers, write to info@moliseoliveoil.com and the family will tell you whether they can host you that season.

Adoption

Name your tree.

Choose a tier and give the tree a name. Payment is taken on Stripe’s page, and Stripe pays the grove. The receipt is emailed by Stripe. If this is a gift, their name goes on the label. The oil follows in December.

Renewal is annual and voluntary. Nothing is charged again unless you decide to adopt for another harvest.

Tier
Shipping

Stripe adds this on its checkout page. Delivery in the EU is included. The United States is $60.

The name on the label appears here as you type.

This opens Stripe’s secure checkout. Nothing is charged again next year unless you adopt for another harvest.