Membership in Abandoned Grove

Belong to the grove, and taste what it gives each harvest.

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 included, to Canada and the United States. For the United States, tariffs are included.

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More than 5,000 olive trees restored to harvest in the hills above Florence.

How it works.

A stone terrace above the Tuscan hills at dusk

Choose.

Join as a Root Member, or guard a tree and be connected to a living olive tree in one of the groves in our care. Either way, you belong to Abandoned Grove from the first day.

People gathered in the grove, listening during a visit

Follow.

Follow the season in My Grove and through letters from the grove: founder letters, harvest and tasting notes, and invitations to tastings, dinners and gatherings.

Bread dipped in green olive oil

Receive.

Guardians receive two 500 ml bottles of their grove's oil, guaranteed every harvest. Every member gets first access to Founder's Reserve and Community Reserve, at member prices with shipping included.

What membership brings.

Membership sustains the whole: the trees, the quality, the people.

Every member receives

  • Olives and olive oil

    Letters from the grove.

    Founder letters and news from the season.

  • A tasting glass of olive oil on red

    Harvest and tasting notes.

    By international olive oil expert Fil Bucchino.

  • The harvest team together in the Vernalese grove

    Gatherings.

    Invitations to tastings, dinners and events.

  • A hand holding Founder's Reserve olive oil

    First access.

    Founder's Reserve and Community Reserve, at member prices with shipping included.

Guardians also receive

  • Root Membership

    Root Membership.

    Everything above.

  • A rescued olive tree in a Tuscan grove

    Your tree.

    Named, photographed and placed on the map, in My Grove.

  • Two bottles of the grove's extra virgin olive oil

    The oil.

    Two 500 ml bottles from your tree's grove, guaranteed every harvest, shipping included, with tasting notes by international olive oil expert Fil Bucchino and an impact report.

  • Certificate of guardianship

    A certificate.

    To download and print.

  • The harvest in the grove

    The grove at harvest.

    An invitation to visit your tree in the grove.

  • Handcrafted olive-wood nameplate

    The nameplate.

    Reclaimed olive wood, engraved by hand with your words by Federica, placed at your tree and photographed for My Grove. Optional, $65.

We ask nothing of a tree beyond what it gives naturally. Two bottles is about what a Tuscan olive tree gives in a year when harvested for quality. Yours are guaranteed.

A single olive tree in the Vernalese grove at sunset

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.

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.

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.

For someone else? Gift a Tree →

Olive tree 54 in the Balatro grove, Tuscany
As seen in My Grove

One tree in our care: Balatro, tree 54.

This is tree 54 at Balatro, between Antella and Grassina, the first grove we brought back into care. Yours is assigned once you join, wherever one is available, and comes with the same record: its number, its photograph and its exact coordinates.

One of Balatro's trees

Tree number
54
Altitude
174 m

This harvest.Guard a tree by December 31, and your first oil comes from this year's harvest.

What members say.

In this world where so much is artificial and fleeting, I appreciate being able to be part of something that has greater meaning.

Jordan S.Grove Custodian

I am so excited about receiving the bottles of olive oil from our trees. I really like the little info booklet and the picture from the grove, and I was also very excited to see the pictures of our trees online. We will definitely have to visit them at some point.

Stefanie P.T.Tree Guardian

I look forward to seeing more olive groves saved and restored and returned to production.

Brian B.Tree Guardian

The beauty of the landscapes, the stories behind every answer to a question, the bounty from the earth… together these made this a trip of a lifetime.

Leslie & Rob B.Tree Guardians

The only way to learn and experience first hand how harvesting and producing the best olive oil connects a community from farming to top-tier cuisine.

Dave B.Grove Custodian

Your olive oil almost ended my marriage. It is under lock and key now.

Naomi S.Guardian

Cracked open the first bottle today. We were pouring it over everything, licking off of spoons.

Glenn M.Guardian

How is it possible that oil can make you feel like this?

Dave S.Tree Guardian and gift recipient

My favourite use is to pour it on a fresh slice of my sourdough bread with a pinch of salt.

Brian B.Tree Guardian

We are so attached to the oil that we even take half-open bottles with us in our luggage on long-haul trips.

Ilse W.Root Member

It is delicious; I am literally drinking it by the spoonful.

Claudia W.Root Member

I still can't get over the taste of this olive oil. It tastes so fresh and crisp.

Will F.Root Member

Before you join.

One tree. One grove. One harvest at a time.

Guard a tree by December 31 for this year's harvest.