The DOP Riviera Ligure Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Protection Consortium becomes a farmer. Or rather, an olive grower. To prove that it is not enough to protect, but that you need to know how to produce and communicate. In other words, the Consortium takes on the role of an olive grower and in full transparency makes the entire path that extra-virgin olive oil DOP Rivera Ligure travels from the tree to the table visible to everyone.
Practically speaking, the Consortium has taken over the free management of an olive farm with 137 trees of taggiasca olives. The site are the heights of Lucinasco, renowned and ideal soil for the cultivation of olives. A small world of stone, of grassy, fertile land, with glimpses of heaven, the sun between the leafy branches and even the the “casella” or “little shack” was once used by shepherds during winter. This will become the olive grove of the Ligurian Riviera. A sort of workshop site, in fact, open to cooperation, to guided visits and experimentation.
The best care will be taken to keep the olive grove in the best conditions of productivity. And an account of the practices, all rigorously manual, will be posted online, given the nature of the territory and also the costs involved in producing the DOP Riviera Ligure extra-virgin olive oil . A success after a full year of hard work, but hopefully also a gratifying experience.
A team of experts is working around this simple project: the agronomic part is managed by Luca Francardo, while Alessandro Giacobbe will be editing the texts and the historical and territorial interesting facts, under the coordination of the Director, Giorgio Lazzaretti.
“This project is part of a broader strategy that aims to enhance Ligurian products through their knowledge and which will see another project take off towards the end of the year, this time focusing more on the marketing of the various excellences of Liguria”, says President of the Consortium, Carlo Siffredi.
“This will not be a conceptual journey, but hands-on, one that will describe how work in the olive grove is managed: from fertilizing to pruning, from weed control to protection from the olive fruit fly, from registration of all operations to ensure product traceability to sensory and chemical-physical analyses conducted on the oil marketed under the protected designation of origin Riviera Ligure”.
Enjoy your trip, then, on a discovery of DOP Riviera Ligure olive oil with the column “The olive grove of the Riviera Ligure” on the website www.oliorivieraligure.it
