Olevo

Pure biological extra virgin olive oil. Rich and fruity Canino olive oil organically grown in the mineral rich groves of a family farm in Viterbo, Italy.

17/06/2026

It's suddenly very hot this week so we start work earlier each morning, escape the heat at lunchtime, and continue doing whatever we're doing in the late afternoon early evening. We're picking and distilling, attending to the vegetable garden, and not spending much time behind the computer.

The cornflower hydrolites are fabulous so far, though we're still experimenting with our process, with the amount of water we're using. When the last of the cornflower is done we have rosemary, lavender, and magnolia ready to distill, and a bed of pretty little yellow helichrysum flowers to plant.

June 🥵 @ olevoitalia.com

13/06/2026

The beautiful little shaded table corner at the farm, an ancient metal table and warped wooden chairs under a canopy of twisting vines and branches. It's a lovely little space, with shafts of afternoon sunlight glittering through the leaves of the large conifer tree that looms above it.

We've installed the last of the summer's irrigation system in the vegetable garden at home, picked and distilled another row of cornflower at the farm, and sent off a little order of our extra virgin biological olive oil to Genova, so that's fun! There's also much work to do at the computer, so we're often dividing our time.

Always busy @ olevoitalia.com

10/06/2026

Another hot day in early June. We're in the vegetable garden extending the irrigation system, building bamboo structures for the corn and tomatoes, and transplanting seedlings from the nursery. The olive groves are thriving, but the seedlings are already struggling in the early summer heat.

We've built a detailed grow calendar for all our vegetables, plants, and flowers over the years, carefully researched and annotated, but the challenges of the changing climate mean that we're going to have to rethink our traditional planting dates. We're already planting earlier. And it's too late.

Wish us luck! @ olevoitalia.com

06/06/2026

Lots of pretty cornflower in a wicker basket in the garden at the farm. We'd picked as much camomile as we could in a mad rush before the heat spoilt it, and it took days, and now we've got heaps of it drying or already distilled into lovely hydrolate.

Picking the cornflower was simple and fairly quick, but we'll do another run in the coming days as more flowers bloom in the milder weather. It gives us time to work on a marketing plan for Germany, prepare to launch a new series of soaps on our website, and plant more vegetables in the garden at home. Busy! 🤪

Early June @ olevoitalia.com

01/06/2026

Re-potting chicory, sage, and Moldavian melissa on a very warm afternoon at home, moving the plantlets from the seedbeds to smaller separate pots. From there they'll go into the vegetable garden. Summer will be hot and long, but the reclaimed water tanks are full after so much rain, and the mulch is rich and full of nutrients.

We're spending much of our time at the farm, harvesting the camomile flowers and either drying them on large nets and trays, or distilling them directly. This is still the investigation and experimentation stage, but the oils and hydrolates we've made so far are excellent and we're overjoyed!

Learning new skills @ olevoitalia.com

27/05/2026

The grove at the farm in the first days of the first heatwave of the year. We're busy harvesting the camomile and working with our new distillation machine for the first time, but the heat means we've shifted to our summer work schedule; starting earlier, escape the sun in the afternoon, and a long shift from late afternoon into evening.

We're planting in the vegetable garden at home, seeding in the nursery, and have moved the plants out of the hot greenhouses into the shade. There's much to do, and we have to be more efficient with our time, especially with all the online techie stuff we're working on.

Early summer heat 🥵 @ olevoitalia.com

22/05/2026

An extremely busy week, but just enough time for an an afternoon cutting soap for an order we have to send of to Germany. All our olive oil soaps are custom made for each client, so it takes up to a month for them to dry naturally before we can cut and wrap them and send them off.

We've also begun harvesting the camomile flowers at the farm, and completed our first tests with our new distillation machine there to make essential oils, oliolites, and hydrolytes. This is all part of a new project we're working on, so there's that, as well as everything else. Spring is a very busy time.

Working hard @ olevoitalia.com

13/05/2026

The rows of camomile growing happily in the grove at the farm, along with a few rogue poppies 😀. We have to hurry now, and hope the weather holds, because they're ready to pick. The drying room has to be set up too, and the distillation equipment prepared.

We've been busy with soap, and ads for the tapenades, and there's ongoing work in the grove at home, the nursery, and the vegetable gardens, reinstalling the watering system before the summer heat. We're also putting the third grove back into production this year, too, so it's a very busy time.

No time @ olevoitalia.com

09/05/2026

Repotting and reseeding the trays outside the little nursery in the sun beside the house. We have ten types of corn, silverbeet, tomatoes, and sweet potato which will be replanted in the vegetable garden at home, and a range of officinal plants including sage, beebalm, hyssop, oregano, and summer savory which will end up at the farm.

We're talking to a few restaurants in Rome who are interested in our products, so we have to schedule a couple of trips down there in the coming weeks, and the long bed of camomile in the grove at the farm is almost ready to be harvested, so we have to finish setting up the drying room for that too. There's a lot to do 🫣

Sleep is important @ olevoitalia.com

05/05/2026

The canopy of wisteria in full bloom on the patio at home. These are warm Spring days, but with rain forecast this week, which is even better! The olive trees are thriving, but we've given them a high nutrient snack and turned the earth at the base of every trunk. When they're happy, we are 🥰

We're hard at work making soap for two orders, and have another delivery to a restaurant in Rome this week that uses only our oil for their customers 😎, one of whom loved it so much he returned home to Canada and ordered more! Turns out you can spend money on ads, but nothing beats tasting it. Who knew? 😂

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Viterbo
01100

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+393929239917

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https://olevoitalia.com/

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