Root Membership
$45 a year
Sustains the trees, the quality and the people behind the oil. Letters from the harvest. Invitations to gatherings and tastings. First access to each release, at member prices with shipping included.
Extra virgin olive oil from the groves others left behind.
The oil that changes what you thought you knew about olive oil.
Guard a rescued olive tree in Tuscany, and its grove's oil reaches you every harvest. Or become a member, and get first access to each release.
Membership from $45 a year. With a tree, $225. Shipping to Canada and the United States. For the United States, tariffs are included.
As featured in
More than 5,000 olive trees restored to harvest in the hills above Florence.
The pleasure comes first.
Everything behind it, the land, the season, the people, makes it possible.
Delicious, fragrant, spicy and complex.
“Abandoned Grove is the freshest and purest oil coming into Toronto, highlighting the passion for sharing great oil by the AG team.”
“What AG brings to a dish is a feeling, a sense of place, of standards, even of the potential that anything it touches can be elevated and transformed.”
The oil follows the harvest, not a retail calendar.
The market rewards speed, scale and convenience. Membership lets us keep the oil at its highest quality, the groves thriving and the people who tend them fairly paid.
Membership
Join the Grove.
Tree Guardianship
$225 a year
Root Membership, and one rescued olive tree, named, photographed and placed on the map. Two 500 ml bottles of its grove's oil, guaranteed every harvest, shipping included.
Renews annually. Cancel anytime.
Extra virgin olive oil by design.
Envisioned before harvest.
Made to deepen what is simple and to elevate what is shared.
We decide the balance and harmony we want first, then work with nature to reach it. Extracted within hours of harvest, verified through certified chemical and sensory evaluation, and shipped by air.
- Nearly 2×
- Phenolics, even at the low end of our range, against the recognised threshold for high phenolic oil
- None detected
- Residues, tested every harvest
- Every harvest
- Full record published with its release
The connection is physical.
Every bottle traces back to one grove, its trees and its harvest. Enter My Grove to see where it stands, and follow your own tree through the season and into the bottle.
Traceability
- Grove
- Osteria, Tuscany
- Tree Number
- 78
- Coordinates
- 43.73312 / 11.34360
- Varietal
- Moraiolo
- Harvest
- October 2025
The work behind the bottle
- Grove
- Restored through pruning, clearing, soil and biodiversity work
- Harvest
- Selective
- Extraction
- Within hours, with oxygen and temperature controls
- Verified
- Sensory, chemical, residuals
- Handled
- Bottled at source under nitrogen, shipped by air
What members say
After the first bottle.
It all starts in the grove.
Left behind.
Traditional groves are slow and hard to tend. When the work stopped paying, families walked away. In Tuscany alone, four million olive trees have been abandoned.
Brought back.
These trees still stand on rare hillsides, in singular microclimates. Restored with skill, they give exceptional fruit for extraordinary oil.
Protected.
One tree at a time, we bring the grove back into harvest without forcing it past its nature. Our members keep it there.
The groves we return to.
Six living groves in the hills above Florence, each shaped by its microclimate, history, varieties and character. We ask nothing of a tree beyond what it gives naturally.
5,000+
Trees restored to harvest
72
Acres under care
15+
Years in the groves
~4,000
Hours of social integration each year
Restoring or sustaining a grove is one kind of work. Knowing what it can become, how to express it, and what to refuse is another.
One standard, carried through every harvest.
Fil Bucchino is a certified olive oil taster, educator and international judge, and the only Canadian listed in Italy's National Directory of Virgin and Extra Virgin Olive Oil Experts. He produced Obsessed with Olive Oil, the first feature documentary on olive oil quality, and is the co-host of The World of Olive Oil on PBS.
The oil is the work of growers, millers, agronomists, harvest teams and tasters. Fil carries the standard across it all.
Made by hand, in the grove.
Add a nameplate to any tree, your own or one you give. Cut from olive wood reclaimed from the groves we restore, then engraved by hand with your words by Federica, an artisan from the grove's community. Once it's placed at the tree, we photograph it and add it to My Grove. The tree's Guardian can come to see it in the grove, or take it home to keep.
Belong to a grove.
Your tree is assigned once you join, wherever one is available, and it stays yours for as long as you continue.
Twenty trees or more, held in your organization's name. Grove Custodianship begins with a conversation.