With Brotherly Love
Frate Sole is a family operation producing high quality and healthy extra virgin olive oil in an environmentally sustainable way. Our north star is a prosperous enterprise that yields healthy and world-class olive oil in a flourishing ecosystem that will be worked and enjoyed by future generations.
How are we doing?
Frate Sole earned another gold medal at the 2026 California State Fair!
That award continues a legacy of top honors at the State, Los Angeles County and Yolo County competitions, including gold medals at the 2024 and 2023 California State Fairs.
In 2018, the California State Fair awarded Frate Sole a Double Gold (99 points), Best of Class (Medium Intensity Blend), Best of California (Medium Intensity Blend), and overall Best of California Artisan Producer!
Frate Sole earned gold medals that year at the Yolo and Los Angeles county fairs, as well.
We invite you to try the Best of the Best. For products and prices check out Get Frate Sole. To order, email andrea@fratesole.net or text 916-712-7059.
Taste it for yourself — and experience olives from blossom to bottle!
We would love to show you around the farm and let you taste the freshest olive oil available anywhere. We are between Woodland and Davis, at the farm end of the Sacramento region’s Farm-to-Fork renaissance. Call or text us to let you know you are coming: 916-712-7059.
Check out the visit with Off Road Confidential?
Gabe Ornelas and his friendly crew warmed our hearts with their visit to Frate Sole and their life-affirming storytelling. Here is the episode: Off Road Confidential: Introducing Frate Sole
Mention the video and we will give you $5 off a half-gallon of our award-winning extra virgin olive oil.
Orchard Update
Hopefully you have heard of community-supported agriculture. Frate Sole is practicing agriculture-supported community.
This spring, Frate Sole partnered again with Davis Community Church and Growing Hope Globally. A morning’s work in the orchard resulted in seven cases (84 bottles) sold to raise more than $2,100 to support a sustainable agriculture project in North Cameroon.
For a rundown of farm-based community service projects, please see the Grower’s Journal.
At Frate Sole, half of the landscape is dedicated to habitat. This winter, about 100 greater white fronted geese are hanging out in the seasonal wetland we recreated. They were followed by nesting pairs of black-necked stilts and American Avocets.
Meanwhile the olives and oaks are full of nests — robins, red-winged blackbirds, western kingbirds, finches, mocking birds and even orioles. Lots of singing.