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Calabrian farmers are suffering, and the halts and strikes have been growing since beginning the end of September. Somet...
10/15/2026

Calabrian farmers are suffering, and the halts and strikes have been growing since beginning the end of September. Something must change… the fuel prices are unsustainable and Italy will lose many authentic small producers if not.

Gli autotrasportatori calabresi fermano i mezzi dalla mezzanotte di oggi fino a quella di martedì 20 ottobre. Il fermo regionale è stato proclamato da Fedralog Calabria, la Federazione autotrasporti logistica, per denunciare il caro carburante, l’aumento dei costi di gestione e tariffe di trasporto ritenute insufficienti a garantire la sostenibilità delle imprese. L’elenco diffuso dagli organizzatori indica 17 punti di presidio nelle cinque province, distribuiti tra snodi logistici, uscite autostradali, aree industriali e incroci strategici per il trasporto delle merci.

Nel Reggino i punti sono due: il porto di Gioia Tauro e Grotteria Mare, allo svincolo della strada statale 682 Jonio Tirreno. Nel Vibonese le postazioni sono Vibo Marina, lo svincolo di San Onofrio e Vazzano. Il Catanzarese ne conta il maggior numero: l’area dell’aeroporto di Lamezia Terme, Marcellinara, Vena di Maida, Falerna e le località Caraffa San Floro e Caraffa. Nel Crotonese è segnalato un solo presidio, in località Passovecchio. Nel Cosentino l’elenco comprende Sibari, Frascineto e Villapiana, all’uscita autostradale. Sulla statale 18 sono indicati il tratto dell’Alto Tirreno cosentino tra Santa Maria del Cedro e Tortora, senza specificare il luogo di concentramento, e Guardia Piemontese. Sono previsti presidi anche a Montalto Uffugo, Cosenza Nord e Rende, con circa cinquanta camion, e a San Lucido, presso la rotonda.

Intanto la distribuzione di carburante mostra serie criticità. A Cosenza la gran parte delle stazioni di servizio ha esaurito le scorte di benzina e diesel. Dopo una giornata di lunghe code e di circolazione paralizzata, i distributori che hanno ancora carburante sono stati presi d’assalto anche questa mattina. La crisi è legata alle proteste degli operai Ilva davanti alla raffineria di Taranto e al blocco dell’autotrasporto annunciato proprio in Calabria. Il problema si estende ad altre province. A Lamezia Terme i distributori Eni, che praticano prezzi più bassi, sono chiusi per scorte esaurite, anche per le mancate consegne dovute al blocco alla raffineria di Taranto, da cui dipende l’approvvigionamento del Sud Italia. Restano aperti gli impianti con prezzi più alti, e molti automobilisti fanno scorta per i prossimi giorni.

Sul piano nazionale, il presidente di Conftrasporto Pasquale Russo ha chiesto la convocazione urgente delle associazioni dell’autotrasporto da parte del governo. In caso contrario, ha detto, si dovrà valutare un fermo nazionale e “si bloccherà il paese”. Russo ha riferito di proteste spontanee, “non governate e non proclamate dalle associazioni di categoria”, in alcune aree del Paese, che si stanno allargando perché trasportatori di altre zone, soprattutto del Mezzogiorno, si organizzano per fare blocchi stradali. Ha indicato un aumento di oltre 50 centesimi al litro dall’inizio della guerra e ha chiesto che si dia seguito all’accordo siglato con il governo a maggio.

It’s time. 🫒🫒🫒
10/13/2026

It’s time.

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Most people see Italy from a tour bus. You’ll see it from our family’s olive groves.This isn’t the Italy in the guideboo...
10/13/2026

Most people see Italy from a tour bus. You’ll see it from our family’s olive groves.

This isn’t the Italy in the guidebooks. It’s older, slower, and more generous, and we’d love to show it to you. Our 2027 trips are filling fast, so we’re opening up the details at two free info sessions:

🛍Sat, Oct 24 at 4pm, in person at the shop in West Reading, PA
💻 Wed, Nov 11 at 7pm ET, virtual

Come for the answers. Stay for the dreaming.

Tickets are free- please register below:
In shop: https://events.humanitix.com/ciccio-s-olives-italy-travel-info-session-in-person-10242026

Virtual: https://events.humanitix.com/ciccio-s-olives-italy-travel-info-session-virtual-11082026

10/12/2026

Listen closely. This is what slow food sounds like🔊🫒

One swing. Then another. Then the next tree, and the next, across miles and miles of olive trees. Before a single olive comes down, the ladies of our harvest team walk the groves of Vena di Maida with a hoe and clear the ground beneath every tree by hand.

No engine. No shortcut. Just steel meeting sun-drenched earth, over and over, as the morning warms up around them.

People ask why we don’t use a machine for this. The truth is, the hoe still does it best. It gets close to the trunk, it’s gentle on the roots, and in the right hands it’s the most effective way to clean the grove there is. These women have those hands. They have shown up for our harvest year after year, and Ciccio himself still works the ground this way at 86.

Nobody rushes it. Nobody can.

We could have built a faster company. But we didn’t come here to be fast. We came here to make real olive oil, the kind that has been made on this land for generations, by people who love it.

You can hear it in this video. You can taste it in every bottle. 🫒

10/11/2026

You see the bottle. You see the golden pour over your bread. What you don’t see is this.

Before a single olive is gathered, our team of women walk the groves with a hoe and clear the ground around every tree by hand.

Every. Single. Tree.

These ladies have been part of our harvest family for years, and we could not do this without them. Ciccio himself did this work by hand his whole life, and at 86, you can still find him out in the groves doing just this. It’s the care that has always gone into our oil, and that still does.

Now you know just the beginning of the heart and effort that gets poured into every bottle of Ciccio’s Olives 🫒

10/10/2026

It really is this breathtaking.

Let us take you there in 2027.

➡️booking now: trips.cicciosolives.com

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Flash sale, friends!Take 20% off Ciccio’s Olives extra virgin olive oil this Columbus Day weekend now through Monday. Sa...
10/09/2026

Flash sale, friends!

Take 20% off Ciccio’s Olives extra virgin olive oil this Columbus Day weekend now through Monday. Sale includes all size Original EVOO stainless steel tins, both online and in our West Reading, PA, shop.

No code needed. Discount applies automatically.

This single-origin, unfiltered Carolea from our family groves in Calabria is the liquid gold you want in your kitchen and to gift others.... and it's now 20% easier before the holidays.

Ends Monday, Oct 12 th at midnight. Excludes cases.

10/08/2026

What’s the story with Carolea olives?

We’ll, they make a mild and buttery olive oil, with hints of almond and sweetgrass.

But most of all, they’ve been growing on this land long before us, and they will exist long after us. We don’t choose the olive varietal, it’s chooses us 🫒

Morning shop lighting on textures and colors never ceases to be delightful☀️
10/06/2026

Morning shop lighting on textures and colors never ceases to be delightful☀️

The journey of strangers becoming friends is a beautiful one, especially around tables of clinking w**e glasses and bell...
10/04/2026

The journey of strangers becoming friends is a beautiful one, especially around tables of clinking w**e glasses and belly laughter beside the lapping waves of a crystal-clear sea. It’s a process like all processes, one that can’t be rushed or forced but springs up naturally when the time is perfect, shedding light in a new way on a depth that was only an exterior beforehand.

Italy has a way of doing that. Of nestling into hearts and encouraging only beautiful things to come to the surface, things like friendship and joy and camaraderie and delight.

If you ask us what our favorite part of running trips to Calabria back to our family olive groves, it’s when the inside jokes start coming out, the van music gets a little louder, people start linking arms on a passeggiata, and tears come to their eyes as they leave.

It’s when a group of strangers become friends with shared memories that will last a lifetime.

This is the good stuff life is made of. This is the stuff our hearts beat with desiring to deliver to you. This is the stuff that Calabria beckons you to come experience.

Grazie di cuore to our new famiglia ♥️

Address

12B S. 5th Avenue
West Reading, PA
19611

Opening Hours

Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm

Telephone

+6106740034

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