Adopt An Olive Tree
Here's a great chance to both do something great for the environment and get something fun to show for it: adopt yourself an olive tree! Nudo, an olive grove in Italy, is offering people the chance to support small scale artisanal farming (instead of the large mechanized operations that damage the earth) by adopting a specific olive tree. And when you adopt an olive tree in the grove for one year not only do you get the satisfaction from the environmental effort, but you also get all the produce from your tree. You'll get a Spring Package with the olive oil from your tree, and then an Autumn Package of more olive oil and some handmade olive oil soap. $130/year.via DailyCandy
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steve Oct 13th 2007 10:38PM
The "good for the environment" piece of this marketing ploy doesn't add up: how much carbon is being released in the production and shipping of the goods you receive?
jason gibb Oct 18th 2007 10:01AM
Hello - just to let you know that we set aside part of our olive grove as a forest in order to offset the carbon footprint of the food miles.
We have tried very hard to ship our goods by rail (which uses a quarter of the fossil fuels as road transport). Unfortunately the rail transport system is not up to this, though we will continue to try and find ways to reduce carbon emission that we're responsible for.
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Ciao, Jason (jason.gibb@nudo-italia.com)