Frate Sole Olive Oil Company

It's about the Olives!!

The olive trees we have selected exclusively for Frate Sole's Extra Virgin Olive Oil are predominantly Tuscan varieties – Frantoio, Leccinio, Coratina and Pendolino. New plantings are of Spanish and French origin, which include Arbequina and Hojiblanca. The fruit is hand-picked and cold-pressed before the sun sets a second time to ensure fresh and flavorful oil.

About Us!!

At Frate Sole Olive Oil Company, respecting our sister Mother Earth is part of our business plan. We do not use artificial chemicals or fertilizers. We plant cover crops to naturally increase the fertility of the soil. And we judiciously irrigate with a drip system. Our orchard has been graded to restore seasonal wetlands. The captured winter runoff provides habitat and replenishes the aquifer; the edges are newly planted with native oaks and grasses. It is a place where people – and coyotes and rabbits, hawks and even the occasional snake – are the way God made them.

Sustainablility

Our goal is to create a sustainable enterprise that yields healthy and world-class olive oil in a flourishing ecosystem that will be worked and enjoyed by our children's children.

We grant to creation what is creation's and to tradtion what is tradition's.

The trees at harvest time.