After a season of hard work, spring is the time of ritual yearly farming operations. Special care is dedicated to interventions which can help prevent the biennial “high yield/low yield” dichotomy – manuring and pruning once more prove essential for the purpose at hand. Manuring took place in mid-March: humid soil, professional organic-mineral manure, highly […]
The olive grove of the Riviera Ligure: from the soil to the dining table
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 […]
Pruning
Pruning the olive grove: why olive tree have to be pruned After fertilization, olive trees need to be pruned. Olive tree bears fruit on branches that are two years old. New fruit branches always grow on the part closest to the trunk: new fruit branches always grow on the part closest to the trunk. A […]
